Politics

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said he's ready for 'constructive' talks - but only for 2023/24, and there should be 'productivity and efficiency opportunities' for an NHS on its knees

A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped

Nurses, ambulance crews, railway workers and public sector staff have taken - and still intend to take - industrial action in recent months

Keir Mudie says Rishi Sunak's idea to make pupils study extra maths at school could have been a way for the Prime Minister to distract from the other bits of his first major speech of the New Year

The boss of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union is working night and day on a settlement but ministers will not budge. And he says his members will not give in.

Labour's analysis suggests the eye-watering £720,000 potential bill for severance payments could pay for 4,500 free TV licenses for pensioners

The British Embassy bash in Sweden – which took place as the cost of living crisis gripped the UK – featured ‘stars’ such as David Bowie and Baby Spice

The move follows a damning report by the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee saying even people born and bred in Britain would struggle to pass the test

Work and Pensions minister Deborah Stedman-Scott said over 70s affected should make County Court claims for compensation under equality laws

The Government is spending £500,000 testing 'Biometric self-enrolment kiosks' for airports and border crossings - but a University testing the machines has warned similar checkpoints could be fooled with tinted glasses

Mirror columnist Saira Khan says PM Rishi Sunak's pledge to reduce NHS waiting times is encouraging - but social care, childcare and mental health services were absent from his top priorities

The Prime Minister is holding rare weekend talks with health leaders - after senior medics said the health service was on a knife edge with many A&E units struggling to keep up with demand and trusts and ambulance services declaring critical incidents

Race commission chairman Lord Sewell claims the former Prime Minister found it difficult to respond to his report because he had a "bad track record" on statements on race - but a spokesman for Mr Johnson said there had been a "misunderstanding"

The PM announced his vision during his first speech of 2023, where he said that learning maths will leave students “better equipped for the jobs of the future”.

Brian Reade says that under the Tories, we have witnessed Britain stagnate economically and intellectually, becoming insular, divided and broken - and the divide in our country is now huge

The Prime Minister will stage an 'NHS Recovery Forum' with health leaders and experts - but critics slammed the move saying 'patients deserve more than a talking shop'

Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s so-called 'strictest headteacher' said some of her 'controversial' statements had put the Social Mobility Commission in 'jeopardy'

One expert said the government could face 'legal challenge on a number of grounds', while another branded Rishi Sunak's crackdown on striking workers 'completely mad'

Ambulance workers at Unite union have announced a strike date at the end of January - with walkouts by paramedics and 999 call handlers already planning to walk out at two other unions

Many parents have been 'forced to make toughest decisions' as they can no longer afford their children's out-of-school activities - meanwhile organisers are forced to cancel trips and events due to rising costs

Lord John Hutton, who was Defence Secretary under Gordon Brown, said admitting to killing 25 people was a 'very serious mistake' and 'it's just inappropriate and wrong'

PM Rishi Sunak swerved questions on what his 'minimum service levels' for striking staff will mean in the health service - including if workers could be sacked

Up to 45,000 junior doctors in England will down tools in March for 72 hours if a major strike ballot passes, the British Medical Association has announced today

RMT union chief Mick Lynch says he's ready to fight the Tories' minimum service levels for rail, fire and ambulances through the courts - as they'll 'conscript' his members into work

The Royal College for Nursing could be willing to accept a 10% rise in their pay, having previously asked for 19%, after union leader Pat Cullen asked the government to meet them "halfway"