All news on the topic: Cabinet

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Penny Mordaunt says we should applaud Tory who left taxpayers with £15,000 bill
Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has defended Science and Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan after she falsely accused academic Professor Kate Sang of supporting Hamas
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'Rochdale deserved better by-election candidates - Labour needs to act now'
Rochdalians will soon realise their new MP cares more about himself than their town - he stands accused of baiting the Jewish community, siding with the Kremlin on the Ukraine war and defending regimes like Iran
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Matt Hancock humiliated by Jacob Rees-Mogg's son as joke spectacularly backfires
Matt Hancock, giving a speech at Eton College, decided to brand Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg a bad politician, only to learn his son Peter was in the audience and having none of it
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Tory donor accused of perjury, harassment and bribery by Conservative MP
Former Cabinet Minister David Davis used the protections of Parliamentary privilege, which protects MPs from being sued for defamation in most cases, to make the allegations against the multi-millionaire Mohamed Amersi in the Commons
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Grant Shapps got RAF helicopter to pick him up for meeting on public transport
An RAF helicopter flew from London to a field in Defence Secretary Grant Shapps' Welwyn Hatfield constituency, where it picked him up to take him to Yorkshire for Cabinet
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Three female MPs get bodyguards and cars amid growing safety fears in Parliament
Risk assessments found three MPs - including Tory and Labour members - face a heightened threat amid concerns about safety with Lindsay Hoyle appealing for better protection
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Non-ULEZ compliant vehicles to be sent to Ukraine
The move has been announced by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The vehicles will be used for medical and humanitarian needs
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Top Tory told Lindsay Hoyle he would 'unleash hell' in bid to pressure Speaker
Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart heaped pressure on Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle not to allow a vote on Labour's call for a ceasefire in Gaza ahead of chaotic debate
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'I will call Keir on election night to make sure North gets what it deserves'
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
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Bombshell mega-poll predicts Tories will lose three-quarters of seats in wipeout
The MRP poll that surveyed 18,000 people projects Rishi Sunak will be left with just 80 MPs, which would be the party’s worst result in history and see 18 Cabinet ministers ousted
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Rishi Sunak opens door to disgraced ex-PM Boris Johnson returning as minister
Rishi Sunak admitted he still speaks to Boris Johnson 'on occasion' but refused to talk about 'personnel things' when asked if he'd have him back as a Cabinet Minister
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'Not for EU' labels to go on all meat and dairy products sold in supermarkets
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
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Labour promises clampdown on pay-offs for ex-ministers after Tory £1m giveaway
Figures show £933,086 was handed out in a year as the changes in PM from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and then Rishi Sunak led to an unprecedented turnover in ministers
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Tory chairman teases two tax-cutting announcements this year to keep MPs on-side
Richard Holden said there will be "more of that later in the year as well" after a challenging week for the Prime Minister
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Valdo Calocane's sentence 'too lenient' as review sent to Attorney General
The families of the victims of Nottingham knifeman Valdo Calocane have gone to the Attorney General over the "lenient" sentence handed down on Thursday by the judge
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Keir Starmer compares fighting Tories to EastEnders as Rishi Sunak faces mutiny
Rishi Sunak faced ridicule in the Commons as Keir Starmer accused the bickering Conservatives of taking part in the 'longest episode of EastEnders ever put to film'
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Will Rishi Sunak be replaced before the next election - vote in our poll
Rishi Sunak has been slammed by former cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke, who is calling for the PM to step down ahead of the next general election - and we want to hear your thoughts
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Tory rebel Lee Anderson says he'd take his old job back in screeching U-turn
Tory MP Lee Anderson quit as party deputy chairman in protest over Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill - but now says he should have voted for it
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PM says UK 'won't hesitate' to launch more strikes against Houthis in Yemen
The PM Rishi Sunak's statement came hours after the UK and US conducted a second round of joint strikes on the Houthi rebels' missile-launching capabilities in Yemen
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Johnny Mercer pays back £2,000 of taxpayers cash he spent on political leaflets
MPs are banned from claiming expenses for campaign leaflets - and are only allowed to charge taxpayers for non-political informational publications
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Council paid social media prankster £500k to run Facebook group during pandemic
Social media star Simon Harris, 40, was paid a whopping six-figure sum to help Essex County Council run their Facebook page, among other duties, during the coronavirus pandemic
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Post Office Horizon scandal could see Fujitsu forced to repay 'fortune'
The Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said that if Fujitsu is found culpable the Government would want to “secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer”
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Carol Vorderman backs petition for Post Office hero Alan Bates to get an honour
Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE
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'We need to banish the Cabinet of Traitors in the UK Government'
The Government of Great Britain would be much, much better – not hard, admittedly – if it were run like BBC TV show The Traitors - with regular Banishments to keep the cast fresh, and always on their toes
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Now even Joe Biden said to have had no clue Defense Secretary was in ICU
Biden did not know the Pentagon chief had been in the intensive care unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.