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Mirror columnist Paul Routledge on the potential chaos lifting the energy cap would cause, and how new Secretary of Energy and Net-Zero, Grant Shapps, is the wrong man for the job

Nadine Dorries has become the latest Conservative Party MP to confirm she will stand down at the next General Election, following in the footsteps of Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid

The Ukrainian president pleaded with Rishi Sunak to urgently send fighter jets during a surprise visit to the UK yesterday. Volodymyr Zelensk visited Brussels today where he appealed to EU leaders to provide aircraft

The father of young Awaab Ishak - who died after living in a mould-infested flat - hailed plans to change the law and said public support 'stopped us feeling alone during this hard time'

Controversial Tory boss Lee Anderson posed in front of palm trees as he celebrated his promotion to deputy party chairman while on a trip to Uruguay, where temperatures have hit 34C (93.2f) this week

Details of the latest pay hike for MPs comes as the Government is locked in bitter disputes with unions over wage increases for public sector workers such as nurses, teachers and ambulance crews

The terrifying warning was made by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who now lives in Britain after falling foul of Putin. In 2001 he founded Open Russia, an organisation advocating democracy and human rights

Some steel industry insiders believe the Government is determined to 'manage decline' of the once-thriving industry amid sky-high energy costs and moves to slash pollution

O’Mara, 41 was convicted yesterday of six counts of fraud, after he and members of his staff attempted to submit fake expense claims worth £24,000 in the name of a fictitious disability support charity

The Commons heard that Erkin Tuniyaz, governor of Xinjiang in China, plans to travel to the UK on a diplomatic passport, and could meet Whitehall officials next week - despite being branded a "mastermind" of the genocide of Uyghur Muslims

The new deputy chairman repeatedly asked his interviewer on BBC Radio Nottingham if she had ever told a lie when she tried to ask him about a 2019 incident when he was caught persuading a pal to pretend to be an anti-Labour swing voter

The grim outlook for the Conervatives comes after 12 months of chaos in the party with the toppling of two Prime Ministers and resignations over sleaze allegations

As all eyes were on President Joe Biden and his wife after she swanned in to cheers from the Democrats, Jill and Doug Emhoff misjudged the distance between them and appeared to make the social slip up

Ministers have been accused of 'throwing in the towel' on tackling fuel poverty - as Greenpeace UK threatens legal action over the Government's failure to meet requirements to reduce fuel poverty

Just 33,570 people applied to a UK nurse undergraduate course by the January deadline, down from 41,220 in 2022 and 46,040 in 2021

Lee Anderson, who was promoted to the upper echelons of the Conservative Party on Tuesday, said in an interview that capital punishment has a "100% success rate" for preventing reoffending

Rishi Sunak, who had ruled out sending aircraft to help Ukrainians repel the Russians, immediately announced the Government was now reviewing this decision

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that without sophisticated fighter jets and long-range missiles to defend the skies, the war risks entering a long period of "stagnation"

The under-fire Deputy Prime Minister fixed Mr Starmer with a hard, unblinking stare, shooting daggers at him for a solid seven seconds

Russian internet trolls are targeting social media posts - Western officials are monitoring other countries where the dangerous messages are gaining more interest

The judge said O'Mara had been accused of trying to fraudulently claim up to £30,000 in taxpayers' money to fund an "extravagant lifestyle - drink, cigarettes and, above all, cocaine"

Disgraced ex-prime minister Boris Johnson has earned a total of £4.8 million so far as he travels the world cashing in on his scandal-filled time in Downing Street

Singer-songwriter Lemar Obika appeared on Wednesday morning’s Good Morning Britain and described how he developed tinnitus

New Conservative chairman Greg Hands dodged questions on Lee Anderson's history of controversial remarks, including suggestions people using foodbanks cannot cook or budget 'properly'

The heroic war leader made a shock visit to the UK today where he met Rishi Sunak and delivered an address in Westminster Hall, the first foreign leader to do so since ex-US President Barack Obama gave a speech there in 2011