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Former Prime Minister Sir John Major criticised Tory MPs trying to oust Rishi Sunak and install the fourth PM since the election as he spoke alongside Gordon Brown at an event

The bunker, located at Barnton Quarry near Edinburgh in Scotland, was built in the 1950s during a time of fear of Soviet power and was kept a secret until the 1980s

Katie Schofield lost her mum to breast cancer before discovering a pea-sized lump in herself following a 'nightmare' gastric sleeve operation. But then her dad was also diagnosed with the disease

TUC also warns of the risk of a disaster similar to the Post Office Horizon scandal if workers do not get a say in how machines are rolled out

Body language expert Judi James examined King Charles' meeting with PM Rishi Sunak - the first face-to-face audience with the leader since his cancer diagnosis earlier this month

Senior civil servant Sarah Munby was claimed to have told ex-Post Office chief Henry Staunton not to focus on "long-term issues" and ordered him to "hobble" into election

Ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton is locked in a row with Kemi Badenoch over claims he’d been told to stall on compensation for postmasters such as Alan Bates

Liam Byrne, chair of the Commons Business Committee, demanded Post Office bosses and ministers end the blame game and get cheques in the post to victims of the Horizon scandal

Officials at the Atomic Weapons Establishment are said to be blocking a ministerial review of secret records about blood tests on Cold War troops

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

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

The family of four-year-old Evie Green have told of their agonising wait for her life-saving heart transplant as they urged people to sign up to the donor register

One buyer says the 'stress is unbelievable' after discovering his property had £135,000 worth of issues - while others have been left in the dark about the estate's future

The number of working days lost since the current period of strike action began has passed five million, new figures show

An infestation of bed bugs at offices in Canary Wharf has spread to different floors of the building as staff working there have been instructed to work from home for two weeks

Labour slated the 'ludicrous' analysis of its Warm Homes plan, which was unveiled in 2021 to save 19 million families living in draughty homes cash on their energy bills

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

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 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

Dan Godley was initially told he had little more than a year to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but a rare decision made by surgeons while in theatre ended up saving his life

One hundred years ago the first ever Labour government had to prove they were not 'wild men' who couldn't run the country, writes Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire, and it falls to Keir Starmer to prove the same

It’s more than double the figure the department spent on outside advisors the previous year. It comes as the department’s spending on temporary agency staff also reached a record high of nearly £40 million

Tory minister Alex Burghart admitted he uses an experimental “AI Red Box”, developed by the Cabinet Office, to sift through the stack of papers he’s given to read every day.

Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was Cabinet Secretary under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, suggested Labour could win between a 50-100 seat majority

Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says