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The buttoned-up lawyer is about to roll up his sleeves on the campaign trail.

Rishi Sunak kicked off the Tory election campaign in east London this evening- by ejecting a Sky News reporter from the building live on air.

Mackinlay will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since being diagnosed last September

It comes after ministers last month increased the salary threshold for skilled worker visas to £38,700 to help cut legal migration

Chancellor also criticised for ‘dodgy dossier’ on Labour plans as he aims to make low tax a key election issue

Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has told the BBC he paid nearly £5m to authorities to settle his tax affairs.

Keir Starmer’s team has already started speaking with other MPs who could make the jump to Labour after former Tory MP Natalie Elphicke switched sides during Prime Minister’s Questions

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has become the latest Conservative to defect to Labour, hitting out at the ‘broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government’.

HMRC has ruled that Dr Christopher Moran’s company failed to charge VAT to short term occupiers of a London apartment block, which have at times included sex workers

After PM’s bold reading of disastrous Tory local election results, we assess the variables in play at national level

Keir Starmer says the prime minister has no option but to call a general election

Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’

Former MP beats Conservatives’ Ben Bradley in region encompassing several former ‘red wall’ seats

Labour has claimed some early victories in the local elections after winning back seats from the Tories across the country.

Party predicted to lose about half of the 1,000 seats it is defending in contest that could shape Rishi Sunak’s future

Worried MPs have concocted five-point plan of quick measures aimed at showing that the party cares about public’s priorities

Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories

The mental health doctor, who was elected as a Tory MP in 2010, said the Conservatives had become a “nationalist party of the right”, and no longer prioritised the NHS

It follows a government review that uncovered hostile states trying to access serious research in higher education

Following widespread backlash, Bajan prime minister Mia Mottley has announced that the acquisition will be paused in light of public anger with the move and a public consultation will take place

Ministers were accused of a ’colossal act of cowardice’ in a backlash over the Renters Reform Bill after Michael Gove backtracked on a promised ban of no-fault evictions

As the much delayed Renters’ Reform Bill heads back to the Commons on Wednesday, Sky News looks at how many politicians make additional income from renting out homes, offices and even farms.

Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has finally passed through parliament after a crunch vote in the Commons.