Politics

Documents shown to the High Court in a bitter battle between the Government and Braintree District Council say the Home Office is expecting up to 56,000 people to make the dangerous journey by the end of the year

The Prime Minister used a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement to praise political leaders for having courage 'more powerful than a thousand bombs and bullets' to reach the landmark peace deal

Details of investments worth hundreds of millions of pounds that are owned by the PM's heiress wife Akshata Murty were not included on a list of ministerial interests

Campaigners warn that tens of thousands will find themselves locked out of next month's local elections by the controversial new measures

MPs were today told that Chinese dissidents are hauled into alleged overseas "police stations" in the UK, where their family members are threatened. It has been alleged that a businessman linked to one in Croydon has previously raised funds for the Conservatives

Tory ministers sparked fury last month by confirming a two-year hold-up in building key sections of the HS2 high speed rail line in a bid to cut spiralling costs

Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Kyle has apologised after this morning calling the SNP leader Mohammad Yousuf, who is a Muslim batsman and former captain of Pakistan's cricket team

Tory chairman Greg Hands provoked astonishment at the weekend when he claimed public services were performing well - despite strikes and long waits for NHS treatment

The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities now takes cigarette breaks in the secure area after being subjected to horrific abuse and threats in the street

Keir Starmer accused the Tories of presiding over a "broken" system and said his team would focus on tackling long waits

The Institute for Government warned that a repeated failure to tackle the obesity epidemic will result in higher taxes and spending - with the problem already costing the NHS £6.5billion every year

A new report by the National Housing Federation lays bare the extent of the chronic social housing shortage, with families forced to share beds, parents sleeping in kitchens or hallways, and children left without space to do their homework

Four previous Tory Home Secretaries – Theresa May in 2016, Amber Rudd in 2017, Sajid Javid in 2018 and Priti Patel in 2021 – also boasted of getting tough

Ex-Cabinet ministers Priti Patel and Robert Buckland warned that efforts to get people back into work "risk being held back” by tight-fisted rules on Statutory Sick Pay

PM says being bad at maths is embarrassing, rather like his handling of his latest half-baked education idea, says Polly Hudson

Western officials admitted Kyiv would come under pressure over the timing of its long-awaited offensive - but insisted the regime must be left in charge of deciding when the time is right

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Stuart Peach is standing for the Conservatives in Ashfield where party deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP. It is too late to remove him from the ballot paper where he will be listed as a Tory candidate

Police Scotland said: 'A 71-year-old man has today, Tuesday, 18 April 2023, been arrested as a suspect in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party'

Labour leader Keir Starmer distanced himself from his predecessor in a recent interview, where he denied he'd ever been friends with Jeremy Corbyn during their time working together

MPs said they are 'concerned' ministers and NHS leaders have 'underestimated' the extent racism plays in the inequalities

Figures obtained by Labour revealed it took 65 hours for paramedics to get to one person in the North West in December - 32 times the two-hour target for a category 3 call

The Commons inquiry into whether the Tory leader should have flagged his wife’s stake in a childcare business before the Budget once again illustrates this point

Darren Lewis says in light of the Essex pub row over displaying racist dolls, some people need a history lesson to be reminded of the generations enslaved and violated on the basis of their skin colour WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Peter Stanyon, who is chief executive of the association of electoral administrators, admitted the upcoming local elections are unlikely to be delivered to the standard 'that everybody would want to achieve'