Politics

Health Secretary Steve Barclay was today accused of insulting NHS staff, who the Tories roundly hailed and applauded for their dedication at the height of Covid

A package that had been worth £18billion in six months will now be stripped back to just £5.5billion over a year - with many businesses facing a bills shock from April

Claire Perry O’Neill said the Conservatives are now “dominated by ideology and self-obsession” while Keir Starmer is offering "sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership"

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he 'regretted' patients' experience but blamed a surge of flu in England's hospitals as he unveiled a plan to discharge thousands within weeks

The Ministry of Justice, which is led by the Deputy Prime Minister, has brought in marketing experts from outside Whitehall. The MOJ insisted it was ‘a contract for advertising prison officer jobs'

Waiting times for Access to Work grants have skyrocketed - as one employment advisor told the Mirror 'the delays have caused my customers to lose their jobs'

Decisions based on theory often collapse on meeting reality, says Fleet Street Fox. If Rishi uses a private GP, then he doesn't know what 40% of public money is for

An 'angry' Unite rep blasted 'insulting' Health Secretary Steve Barclay for offering no deal after talks lasting an hour - despite Rishi Sunak and Downing Street hinting a cash offer could be on the table

Our Prime Minister has been accused of being 'someone who doesn't use the NHS and doesn't understand the scale of the challenge' in turning the troubled system around. What do YOU think?

Health Secretary Steve Barclay will today unveil a emergency winter package to alleviate the intense pressures on emergency departments - but care bosses warned it would not fix the crisis

Here are all the strike dates currently planned or being balloted on for major unions including railways, paramedics, DVSA driving tests, DVLA, NHS nurses, junior doctors, teachers, firefighters and DWP

Kevin Maguire argues that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is completely out of touch with ordinary working people as strike action grinds on into the New Year across the UK

The bleak analysis from the Resolution Foundation think tank suggests the typical household will see their disposable incomes fall by £2,100 over a two-year period

The idea was said to have been one of three put forward by officials in the Business Department in a leaked email. A No10 source denied it had ever been considered by Downing Street

Rishi Sunak appeared to finally open the door to nurses getting more money this year - but a union chief slapped him down for misrepresenting talks 'on almost every level'

Around two-thirds of the over £17million of MPs' earnings outside Parliament went to just 20 individuals according to the new analysis of sums declared by politicians

Unions and MPs reacted furiously last year when the Ministry of Defence handed a £1.6billion contract to build three new vessels to a consortium led by a Spanish company

The ex-Culture Secretary praised 'rockstar' Boris Johnson - and said the Tories with Rishi Sunak in No10 are 'heading into the long, cold and brutal wasteland of thankless opposition'

Everyone in England would eventually be banned from buying cigarettes under the plan, which was presented to Tory ministers last year - and will be looked at by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting

The announcement will come almost a year after a consultation into banning some of the most commonly littered single-use plastics - with polystyrene cups also hit

Justice Minister Mike Freer, who wears a stab vest to meet constituents after threats, says his husband is worried about him standing again as an MP in 2024

Insiders in Sir Ed Davey's party believe they have identified a phenomenon where Labour-supporting voters moving out of London to the shires and suburbs switch to the Lib Dems

Labour's leader said 233,000 more NHS patients could have been seen in nine months through using spare capacity - as he was confronted with his own scrapped pledge

The millionaire Prime Minister claimed it was not 'relevant' and told people to stop 'bandying around' claims 300 are dying a week - as a nurse goes home and cries every night

In a harrowing account, junior doctor Andrew Meyerson, 40, said: colleagues were "crying in the car park, devastated and shell-shocked, haunted by the substandard care that they have been forced to deliver"