Politics

Campaigners welcomed the move - but called for him to go further, extending the ban to all existing smart motorways

Dr Krish Kandiah of the Sanctuary Foundation last week visited the country on a “fact-finding mission”, and said: "All these factors have been decades in the making. They need serious time and investment into undoing. But there are solutions."

The former Kajagoogoo singer, who shot to No 1 with debut single Too Shy, will share his personal story at the event, hosted by former Labour Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell.

Keir Mudie says that while giving a 'nothing speech' to some Conservative think-tank, former Prime Minister Liz Truss showed how Tories blame the ills of the world on everyone but themselves

Underneath a Twitter post of an online media report headlined “Woman raped in Plumstead park in early hours” - and which included a police comment - he wrote: “More likely that it's a punter that didn't pay”

Under new Labour plans, firms will be banned from roping customers into subscriptions that renew automatically as £130 million is spent each year on unwanted subscription plans

Nurses in England know they are worth more than the 5% pay rise grudgingly put forward by Health Secretary Steve Barclay - the proposed amount was clearly inadequate when inflation is more than 10%

Hospitals across England will face unprecedented disruption as the Royal College of Nursing announced the strikes will take place in a fortnight - possibly to coincide with action by junior doctors

On the final day of his visit to Ireland, the US President met Fr Frank O'Grady, the priest who gave the last rites to his son Beau Biden before he died of brain cancer in 2015

The Royal College of Nursing will hold a 48-hour walkout that will include A&E and cancer unit staff for the first time, before holding a vote on a further six months of possible strikes

Brian Reade reflects on the US President's successful visit to Ireland - despite what the Unionists and Tories were saying about him

Around 350,000 appointments are expected to be cancelled during the lastest strike, as the BMA continues to campaign for pay restoration

The PM and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke after gruesome footage emerged apparently showing a Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by a Russian serviceman

Trevor Holden of Broadland and South Norfolk councils bounces in the crab position and waves his hands around while wearing a bucket hat during the 56-second clip

This Prime Minister won't make Britain rich in the same way someone driving a Bentley doesn't pick up hitchhikers, says Fleet Street Fox. We're heading for a very storrmy summer

Conservative candidates standing in next month's local elections have been delivering leaflets boasting that they have taken their areas 'from debt free to debt ridden'

The Prospect union, which represents staff across the Civil Service, said walkouts will take place on May 10 and June 7. Thousands of civil servants will strike again in a row over a pay

The Tories are accused of trying to rig next month's May local elections by introducing new Voter ID requirements that will disproportionately hit younger people

Ministers had drawn up plans to make people separate rubbish into seven bins - one each for food, garden waste, glass, paper and card, metal, plastic, and general waste

Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'

Around 19 million of Britain's coldest homes will get extra insulation to help families save on their energy bills if Labour gets into power, the party has pledged

Instead of protecting the right to vote, the Conservatives have gone out of their way to undermine it

A Tory politician who allegedly claimed 'all white men should have a black slave' in a leaked voice recording has been suspended from his party as an investigation continues

The US President warned that 'peace is precious' as he became the fourth American leader to address both Houses of the Irish Parliament, the Oireachtas, in Dublin

The PM attempted to defend the policy, saying it would help ensure elections are 'high-integrity processes' - despite any evidence of large-scale voter impersonation