Politics

Sunday Mirror columnist Mark Steel says he thought that when the UK was in the European Union, ALL of the UK was in the UK and had access to the single market in Europe - but he must have been wrong

Rachael Bletchly says while Matt Hancock was banging on about the 'protective ring around care homes', he and his ­incompetent colleagues were merely covering their own a***s

Disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock scrambled to save his political career in the hours after footage of him kissing aide Gino Coladangelo during the Covid pandemic

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Preet Kaur Gill, Britain’s first Sikh MP, said she was left with no choice but to call the police. She is also forced to have a bodyguard at her surgery meetings

Leaked messages appear to show former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock were at loggerheads during the pandemic over the extent of Tory lockdown measures

The former PM claimed it was 'surreal' the Commons Privileges Committee, which is investigating him, will use evidence from Ms Gray given she is poised to become Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. Labour dismissed the comments as 'ludicrous'

Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson said the protesters, who threw missiles at police, were 'just normal family people' with concerns about the safety of their community

GMB general secretary Gary Smith called on the Government to look at how President Joe Biden is planning to boost American manufacturing by switching to green power

After months of waiting, the Health Secretary wrote to unions within hours of GMB ambulance workers announcing they would reduce emergency cover on strike days

The finding comes after grocery price inflation soared to 17.1% - adding £811 to households’ annual shopping bills - and with the Government under pressure to do more to help hard-up households

Conservative MPs spent the day and night at the Fairmont Windsor Park, the same hotel where Rishi Sunak agreed his new Brexit deal European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.

The grieving families of teenage sweethearts Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford want the government to change the law so they can register the deaths of their children

A 24-page dossier by the Commons Privileges Committee lays out a string of questions Boris Johnson will have to answer when he is summoned to give evidence in a live showdown in the week of March 20

Neil Coyle, who lost the Labour whip after the complaints, faces the sanctions after a report from the Independent Expert Panel, which considers allegations of misconduct by MPs

Furious Tories have tried to claim Partygate inquisitor Sue Gray's move to work for Labour reveals a plot to oust Boris Johnson - but Today programme presenter Nick Robinson pointed out she 'didn't deliver the suitcases of alcohol' to No10

Mark Thurston said the impact of inflation on the HS2 high-speed rail project over the past year has been ‘significant’ as bosses and the Government consider delaying to curb costs

Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages reportedly reveal that plans were being drawn up for tougher lockdowns that would ruin Christmas for many, on the same night as a Downing Street party

Fiona Bruce asked energy minister Graham Stuart whether he found leaked WhatsApp messages from his former colleagues 'embarrassing' on last night's BBC Question Time

Matt Hancock's leaked messages reveal that ministers and officials made jokes about people arriving in the UK during the Covid pandemic being locked up in quarantine hotels

Conservative MPs spent the day and night at the Fairmont Windsor Park where they were bombarded with presentations on how to save their seats at the next election after dire poll ratings

The study comes as the world prepares to mark International Women's Day next week with a focus on "equity"- and the Living Wage Foundation said: "True equity needs to start with a Real Living Wage"

A poll for GB News reveals support for speeding-up the probe chaired by Baroness Hallett, following disclosures in the "Lockdown Files" - a leaked cache of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages

Teachers and unions have hit back after leaked WhatsApps between Sir Gavin and the-then Health Secretary Matt Hancock show the pair criticising staff for wanting to ensure schools were safe

Sarah Champion told the House of Commons it was "truly chilling" that those who commit horrendous sex crimes can make a "nonsense" of systems to keep track of them