Politics

Legendary former Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd had planned to give a farewell speech in the Lords criticising PM's for doling out peerages before her death last year

Iceland executive chairman Richard Walker, a former Tory donor who had considered becoming an MP, quit the party in disgust last year with a warning it had 'lost its way'

The Government has announced the date when a ban on disposable vapes will be introduced in most of the UK over concerns that too many kids are taking up the habit

The Black Equity Organisation will have its legal challenge against the Government's decision to ditch three of 30 recommendations heard in the High Court in April

Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan accused Transport Secretary Mark Harper of making the long-running pay dispute worse as the union starts industrial action today

MPs demand an Ofsted shake-up after a inquest in December said a school inspection 'likely contributed' to the death of Caversham Primary School headteacher Ruth Perry

The 32-year-old was convicted last week of stabbing to death 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, last June

New vaping rules that are set to come into force by the end of this year will herald the end of throwaway Lost Marys and Elf Bars and mean fewer flavours are available

The cost of drinks served at Boris Johnson's party to celebrate the UK's departure from the European Union has finally been revealed after a two year long court fight

The Holocaust Educational Trust had condemned Labour MP Kate Osamor's 'disgusting post' on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day that it said was a 'painful insult to survivors'

Top Tory Kemi Badenoch insisted she is not plotting to topple Rishi Sunak - but her former colleague Nadine Dorries accused her of harbouring leadership ambitions

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diamond was forced to defend itself with Sea Viper missiles on Saturday after the latest attack from Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea

Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis took to social media to address speculation he had his eye on entering Downing Street after voters said they'd like him to be PM

Rosena Allin-Khan could be seen shaking her head at former Tory MP Nadine Dorries as they appeared on a panel together on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show

Bungling officials awarded Nadine Dorries a severance payment when she stepped down as Culture Secretary - despite the fact she was not actually entitled to the cash

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is being talked up in Westminster as a possible successor to flailing Rishi Sunak as panicking Tories discuss installing a new leader

The Tories were accused of 'pathetic attempts to hide the truth' with claim to have cut NHS waits when numbers were higher than when Rishi Sunak vowed to slash the backlog

Conservative Party has introduced voter ID, which threatens to disenfranchise two million people if they turn up on the day without the right documents, and is now accused of trying to rig the election

Infosys, of which Akshata Murty owns around 39 million shares, has been on an “approved list” of suppliers for public sector contracts worth more than £750million in recent months

With thousands predicting "utter electoral oblivion", Keir Mudie blasts the Conservative Party and the Tories' repeated plots, which he says "are not making temperance easy"

Losses in Wellingborough and Kingswood - especially if accompanied by a surge in support for the Reform Party - would spell further misery for the beleaguered PM

The former minister, who has entertained Westminster with lurid tales of plots and schemes by shadowy figures to overthrow her old boss, Boris Johnson, announced she would quit as an MP “with immediate effect” on June 9 last year. But it took until 23 August for her to actually put in her letter and vacate her Mid-Beds seat.

The independent Electoral Commission slammed the plans, comparing the proposals to a cricket team “telling the umpire how to enforce the rules of the game”

Wales' economy minister previously served in the health ministry for seven years - but his first experience of the country was one of rejection and racism.

The PM was asked by Labour MP Sarah Champion in the Commons to back an alternative plan for the town’s steelworks that would save all 8,000 at the plant while still transitioning to low carbon steelmaking