Politics

Tories have been accused of 'busting the budget' after Home Secretary James Cleverly said he needed an extra £2.6billion to plug a Home Office budget black hole

Disheartened MPs have written to Home Secretary James Cleverly warning that conditions on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, are 'clearly' causing mental health issues

Working parents of two-year-olds can access 15 hours of free childcare from April but staff shortages could leave families not getting their preferred choice provider

No one else understands better the trials and pressures a young footballer like Marcus Rashford faces, which is why England icon Paul Gascoigne's advice comes from the heart

Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who was blocked from running for Labour in 2017 after an explicit texting scandal, is standing as the candidate for Nigel Farage's Reform Party

The Labour Party might be on a charm offensive with the fatcats in high finance, but Mirror columnist Paul Routledge asks if it's really necessary to be cosying quite so close to the bankers

Government offices in Canary Wharf were emptied overnight as officials treated workspaces, while sniffer dogs have been drafted in to find bed bugs in the building

Hardliner Sir Desmond Swayne made the Hannibal Lecter-like suggestion that fly-tippers should be 'garrotted with their own intestines' during a House of Commons debate

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt made the comments after the International Monetary Fund urged the government not to cut taxes in a bombshell intervention weeks before the Budget

The donation, which was uncovered by DeSmog, was made by hedge fund boss Crispin Odey last August just weeks after 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or abuse

A national poll has found that a huge majority of the public are in favour of women being conscripted should a world war break out. So we thought we'd ask Mirror readers what they think

The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the current 25% rate of corporation tax will not change for the first term of a Labour Government as she addressed business leaders

Grilled on BBC Breakfast over the huge £28billion investment, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said it was down to the 'health' of the economy

Mike Freer, whose Finchley and Golders Green constituency office was set alight at Christmas, said threats and attacks have caused an 'intolerable stress' for his family

Across all ages, genders, ethnicities, religions and income levels, a change in government is the most popular option in a huge new poll by the campaign group Best For Britain

Every single council bar one is expected to experience a real-terms cut in funding, with more than 200 authorities set to experience a reduction of more than 30%

Under a deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland, ministers also will be given training on how to talk about the Good Friday Agreement after they displayed ignorance

The leader of Kent County Council told MPs that new post-Brexit biometric border checks could see queues of more than 14 hours - more than the current worse case scenario

Archbishop Justin Welby, ex-Supreme Court President Baroness Hale and Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti want to overhaul Rishi Sunak's bid to revive his deportations plan

Labour frontbencher Tulip Siddiq scrambled to explain whether Labour's promise to spend £28billion a year on climate issues was a commitment in an analogy about marriage and murder

Tata Steels proposals were branded the 'bargain basement option' as bosses were hauled before MPs to defend plans to shut blast furnaces at its Port Talbot plant in south Wales

Ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon appeared emotional as she told the Covid Inquiry a 'large part of me wishes' not to have been Scottish First Minister during the pandemic

Labour leader Keir Starmer told the Prime Minister the Tories had 'forfeited their right to lecture people' on money issues after their party crashed the economy

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has been on a charm offensive with business, said she had no intention of reinstating curbs on bonuses for wealthy bankers

Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Angela Rayner said helping cash-strapped town halls was a priority and said she would stop forcing councils to bid against each other for cash