Politics

Six years after the controversial policy - one of ex-Chancellor George Osborne's austerity measures - was first rolled out, a Child Poverty Action Group survey shows families struggling to pay food and energy

The Tories are putting up barriers around the ballot box. This is an unnecessary requirement when the scale of electoral fraud is so minimal

As the new tax year starts today, the Shadow Chancellor accuses the Conservatives of raiding people’s wage to pay for their mistakes during their 13 years in power

New rules mean people in England must show identification for the first time to vote in May’s local elections, but the Tories have been accused of rigging the rules

Blackpool South MP Scott Benton was secretly filmed by reporters boasting of his access to ministers in a meeting with fake gambling investors

Derek Bullock was re-selected by the Conservatives to stand for a seat on Bolton Council at local elections next month despite previously being suspended by the party

Labour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the Government is paying pricey consultants to 'do their job for them' after agreeing a £3.9 million contract for 'leadership services' to end small boat crossings

The Home Office has confirmed its plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm vessel docked at Portland Port in Dorset - but Tory MP Richard Drax says he is considering a legal challenge

Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg used the closing preference of a two-day summit at coalition headquarters to highlight broken spending pledges by NATO members

Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the SNP's finances, shortly after Ms Sturgeon stepped down as Scotland's First Minister

The Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Jess Phillips also detailed the the toll of the 2017 Westminster terrorist attack and the murder of two MPs

Peter Murrell, the SNP's former chief executive, 58, was arrested by Police Scotland 'in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party'

The horrific scale of destruction which the city of Bakhmut has suffered has been laid bare as fighting continues to rage in eastern Ukraine

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey wants to ban wet wipes containing plastic fibres amid concerns they are creating fatbergs in Britain's sewers

Peter Murrell was held by officers while raids are carried out at a series of addresses in connection with the investigation

The recommendation comes from crossbench peer Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission and was asked to carry out a review

Nearly one in five (18%) teachers and support staff (22%) reported taking on a second job to make ends meet, while a quarter (23%) of teachers have been forced to skip meals, according to a massive survey by the National Education Union

Labour has unveiled plans to set up 'clean up squads' to ensure that those who make mess have to clean it up as alarming figures show there are 125 instances of fly-tipping an hour

Charity Age UK found 2.5 million people aged 50 and over do not get the care they deserve, and there is also a desperate shortage of care workers, with vacancies at a record 165,000

The report comes in a study by analysts from London-based Tech Against Terrorism and follows the gun horror when Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, rampaged through a school

The troubling survey of more than 17,800 National Education Union (NEU) members laid bare the extent to which schools are being forced to intervene to help families bucking under cost of living pressures

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick was clocked driving at 68mph on the M1, despite a temporary 40mph limit being in place, and was given a driving ban due to 'repeat offending'

Helsinki has formally joined the nuclear-armed alliance - meaning it enjoys the protection of the coalition's Article V 'one for all and all for one' defensive pledge

Tory MP Richard Drax said legal action is being looked at as he called on Suella Braverman to scrap the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on a barge in Dorset

James Cleverly welcomed Helsinki's entry into the 74-year-old, 30-member organsation - and vowed to press ahead with allowing Sweden into the nuclear-armed coalition