Politics

Former Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten warned Rishi Sunak that the party 'won't stand a prayer of winning the next election' if it lurches to the right to pursue Reform UK

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has told headteachers that mobile phone use should be prohibited throughout the entire school day, including break and lunchtimes

First, the sub postmasters’ legitimate complaints about the faulty IT system were ignored, and now they have been let down by a government which has failed to honour its commitment to deliver “full and fair” compensation

Some 58 Tory MPs have already announced they are quitting next time around but the figure could top 100 – by some counts even 150

Steve Rotheram told The Mirror he looks forward to Keir Starmer achieving a similar election triumph for Labour to that of Tony Blair in 1997

Victims of the Horizon IT scandal accused ministers of not matching their words with action as a former Post Office boss claimed he'd been told to delay compensation payments

Keir Starmer's remarks come as Labour faces pressure to back an SNP motion in the Commons this week demanding an 'immediate ceasefire' in the Middle East conflict

Figures buried in Office for Budget Responsibility documents suggest the amount raised from council tax is set to reach £57.4billion - double what is was under Labour

Maria Caulfield received £7,920 in severance when she was sacked as a Health Minister in September 2022, but kept the money when she returned to her old department weeks later

Ministers face calls to outlaw the controversial LD50 test which sees animals fed chemicals until half die, and also bring in a blanket ban on experiments on dogs

Henry Staunton, who was chair of the Post Office, claimed a senior civil servant told him to stall on paying compensation to Horizon victims such as ex-postmaster Alan Bates

Campaigners warned that becoming a parent will become a 'luxury' without action to tackle the spiralling cost of childcare as families take on debt and use their savings

A new biography of the Labour leader Keir Starmer claims he saw the loss of the Hartlepool by-election as a 'personal rejection' and told his top advisers he would resign

It comes after Argentinian President Javier Milei called for the South Atlantic Islands to be handed over to Buenos Aires.

Two thirds of refugees surveyed in September said the looming deadline had hampered their ability to find work. And 90% said they felt “unsettled” because of the time limit

Labour secured a double by-election victory on Thursday after a 'catastrophic' handling of an anti-semitism row. Keir Mudie believes the party 'can hold things together and keep focus'

Tata last month rejected proposals from unions that would have secured jobs while still transitioning to more environmentally friendly ways of producing steel

New analysis found the total number of arrivals since Sunak took office had risen to 38,668 - over a third of the 115,927 who have crossed the Channel since the crisis began

Gen Kitchen and Damian Egan are celebrating their double victory over the Tories in the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections - here's how they won, and what they want to do

Senior Tory source says May election might be necessary after Labour battering in by-elections and polls suggesting the party will be 'obliterated' with announcement potentially soon

No amount of Tory spin can hide how ­disastrously their party performed in what were previously two safe Conservative seats - it's time we have a general election

The Government has announced the General Dental Council could provisionally register dentists trained overseas to work in the UK while they do exams amid an NHS access crisis

Home Office figures show 434 Americans have applied for asylum in the UK in the past decade, with one in seven being granted refugee status or similar protections

Keir Starmer and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown were among mourners paying their respects to Labour stalwart Sir Tony Lloyd, who died in January. He served as an MP for 36 years

Unhappy Tory MPs have hit out at Rishi Sunak and said the Government's performance 'is plainly not enough' after the Conservatives lost Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections