Politics

MPs will be handed a £2,440 salary boost from April, amid a wave of strikes by nurses, railway workers, teachers and others over pay disputes - and we want to know what you think.

Labour warned of a dangerous postcode lottery in accessing healthcare as analysis identifies the North West, South West and East of England as the worst hotspots for women’s health

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said he is 'confident' he has 'behaved professionally at all times' after civil servants who worked for him warned they had lost weight, suffered breakdowns or even felt suicidal

A Tory minister was blasted for sitting through 'another round of musical chairs' on BBC Question Time following the controversy over Lee Anderson's appointment to a senior role

It was the first time the Tory vote in the constituency has dipped below 30% since the 1997 general election, which Tony Blair's Labour party won by a landslide.

Consumer champion Martin Lewis has warned that raising the cap would be an act of national self-harm at a time when so many people are struggling with the cost of living

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come under fire after it moved to water down the outright ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Mirror columnist Paul Routledge on the potential chaos lifting the energy cap would cause, and how new Secretary of Energy and Net-Zero, Grant Shapps, is the wrong man for the job

Nadine Dorries has become the latest Conservative Party MP to confirm she will stand down at the next General Election, following in the footsteps of Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid

The Ukrainian president pleaded with Rishi Sunak to urgently send fighter jets during a surprise visit to the UK yesterday. Volodymyr Zelensk visited Brussels today where he appealed to EU leaders to provide aircraft

The father of young Awaab Ishak - who died after living in a mould-infested flat - hailed plans to change the law and said public support 'stopped us feeling alone during this hard time'

Controversial Tory boss Lee Anderson posed in front of palm trees as he celebrated his promotion to deputy party chairman while on a trip to Uruguay, where temperatures have hit 34C (93.2f) this week

Details of the latest pay hike for MPs comes as the Government is locked in bitter disputes with unions over wage increases for public sector workers such as nurses, teachers and ambulance crews

Mirror reader Barry Foster says normal working people have to suffer 'while the real culprits make excuses and get away with it'. But what do you think? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Tory Charles Walker gave a scathing verdict on the quality of MPs - warning that insecurity and lack of support means many of the "best and brightest" are being put off

Some steel industry insiders believe the Government is determined to 'manage decline' of the once-thriving industry amid sky-high energy costs and moves to slash pollution

Anna Morell asks when will the Tories begin to listen and stop the bone-exposing cuts that are leading to actual loss of life, as the Government spends a small fortune on trying to deliberately put poor disabled people back in their box

Unison says ambulance workers - who will strike again this week - were prepared to continue industrial action for several months as Health Secretary Steve Barclay refuses to discuss pay settlements

The Commons heard that Erkin Tuniyaz, governor of Xinjiang in China, plans to travel to the UK on a diplomatic passport, and could meet Whitehall officials next week - despite being branded a "mastermind" of the genocide of Uyghur Muslims

The new deputy chairman repeatedly asked his interviewer on BBC Radio Nottingham if she had ever told a lie when she tried to ask him about a 2019 incident when he was caught persuading a pal to pretend to be an anti-Labour swing voter

The grim outlook for the Conervatives comes after 12 months of chaos in the party with the toppling of two Prime Ministers and resignations over sleaze allegations

The Money Saving Expert founder has written to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt urging him to postpone a planned rise in energy bills. He warns another 1.7million being plunged into fuel poverty

A national firefighters' strike has been put on hold as members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) consider a new pay deal after a previous offer was described as "insulting"

Lee Anderson, who was promoted to the upper echelons of the Conservative Party on Tuesday, said in an interview that capital punishment has a "100% success rate" for preventing reoffending

Ministers have been accused of 'throwing in the towel' on tackling fuel poverty - as Greenpeace UK threatens legal action over the Government's failure to meet requirements to reduce fuel poverty