All news on the topic: Politics

The Tory austerity architect said 'anti-nanny state Conservatives' are 'not worth listening to' as he took aim at Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak for delaying a ban on junk food advertising

Sadiq Khan is demanding ministers raise their ambitions as it emerged construction started on 10,000 council homes in the capital last year, compared to just 4,325 across the rest of England in the previous year

Writing for the Mirror, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said it is a "national scandal" the country is failing to build council housing for a new generation

A study by Sheffield University and Carers UK lays bare the contribution of families in easing the pressure on the vital service, amid growing calls for extra cash

Ministers have announced plans to clamp down on 'spoofing' calls used to impersonate UK phone numbers and allow banks to delay suspicious transactions for longer

Official Home Office figures revealed 100,258 car theft cases were closed in 2022 without a suspect even being identified across England and Wales - it means 275 instances were not solved each day

Under new rules introduced by this Tory government you will need to show valid identification to vote in England’s local elections. This requirement will apply across the UK at next year’s general election

Two thirds of the Conservative ministers who sit around the Cabinet table backed an attempt to rip up Westminster sleaze rules in a bid to save Owen Paterson

BP’s latest profits, between this January and March, were around £560millon more than analysts who follow the company predicted it would make

Oonagh Preece first went to a polling station in 1950 and has voted in every local and general election since. But the requirement for photo ID at polling stations now excludes her from democracy

Shadow trade secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Tory ministers are failing to grasp trading opportunities after Brexit as he urged them to take advantage of the Coronation

A Labour backbencher's Bill to enforce rules around carers being paid for travel time has passed its first Commons hurdle - and is due to back in front of MPs in six months

The Electoral Commission has admitted it will 'not be possible to accurately quantify' the impact of the new rules by counting who does or doesn’t have ID at the ballot box

Care Minister Helen Whately faced a tough 90 minutes of questioning from MPs on the Commons Health and Social Care Committee over wage rates and chronic levels of vacancies

The NHS Staff Council meeting of NHS Employers and 14 unions representing all staff except doctors and dentists took place from 1.30pm and saw a landmark vote on the 5% pay rise for 2023/24

Senior Conservatives had feared up to 1,000 of their local councillors would be ousted in the Prime Minister's first big electoral test on Thursday

The fake Ukrainian document had a photo of Boris Johnson plus his correct birth date, but police said they were not fooled by the document

Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of attempting to stoke a row about his decision to hire the former government ethics chief as he has nothing to say about the cost of living crisis

Sky News presenter Kay Burley grilled Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on whether he was a 'Nimby' (Not in my back yard) after his local council tried to block plans to house asylum seekers on a disused airbase

The Labour leader said the party was preparing to 'move on' from its commitment to free tuition, which was written into the last two manifestos under Jeremy Corbyn leadership

In the UK, the Government is already increasing the retirement age, without proper consultation, to 67 from 2028. The PM now looks to bring forward to 2036 from 2046 the scheduled rise to 68 - he should take France as a warning

The Government has been accused of giving these companies “generous and untargeted handouts” by Labour as millions struggle through the cost of living crisis.

The NHS recommends under-18s see a dentist at least once a year because their teeth can decay faster, but the number who have had not had recent check-ups is soaring

Protestors set fire to roads in Paris with containers pictured ablaze as police battled to contain the chaos with dozens of officers injured up and down the country

Free school meals funding has failed to keep up with the rising cost of food meaning schools are forced to make up the difference from teaching budgets, it has been warned