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Labour leader Keir Starmer today promises to end the NHS scandal which has left 180,937 children waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment - despite Rishi Sunak pledging to cut waiting lists

Campaign group The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign reports that more than 260,000 women affected by state pension age changes have died since their fight for justice began

Public rage was triggered by a TV drama about the PO injustices, but this mood has been bubbling under for quite a while

Campaigners say the Government is overlooking the "urgent need" to provide safe and legal routes for people fleeing war and persecution to claim asylum in the UK

Tory moderates have set up a bruising clash with right-wingers by calling for Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill to be toned down ahead of a crunch vote next week

Fellow Labour MPs expressed sympathies as Sir Tony Lloyd said he will be 'leaving hospital to spend the time I have left with my family'

The Tory peer Zac Goldsmith, who quit Rishi Sunak's cabinet in June last year after being named and shamed for attempting to undermine a Partygate probe, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court

Offers of compensation and exoneration to Post Office victims are not enough, says Fleet Street Fox. True justice comes when they close the scandal factory

An estimated 100 people have been injured on the cycle lane since it was installed in 2022 - including fractures, lost teeth, and significant bruising

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Tory MP Sir Jake Berry clashed over why it took an ITV drama on the Post Office scandal to jolt the Government into action for victims

Voters in Kingswood and Wellingborough are expected to go to the polls in by-elections on February 15 after the departure of former Tory MPs Peter Bone and Chris Skidmore

Tory MP Jonathan Gullis challenged Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker to stand in Stoke-on-Trent North at the next general election, claiming he would "absolutely" beat him

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”

Former Conservative MP Chris Skidmore said he will work with Labour on Net Zero and refused to encourage voters to vote for the Tories in the upcoming by-election in Kingswood

Former Tory Cabinet minister and ex-COP26 President Alok Sharma, who is still a sitting Conservative MP, is receiving £50,000 every three months for 48 hours work

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

Eton schoolboys were supposed to return to class after the winter break on Tuesday, but an overloaded local sewer system scuppered plans, with boys now being moved to remote learning

Downing Street has signalled that Alan Bates could get a knighthood after thousands joined our call for the former postmaster who exposed the Horizon scandal to be honoured

Keir Starmer is promising to have compulsory teeth cleaning in breakfast clubs and to ban vapes being advertised to kids to turn around poor health if Labour win the election

Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons

Rishi Sunak told MPs today that Horizon convictions will be quashed on a "blanket basis" with each victim being handed a £75,000 compensation payment after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama ' Mr Bates vs the Post Office'

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner

Marlene Englehorn, 31, has set up a citizens group to decide how to spend her £21.5million inheritance from grandmother Traudl Engelhorn-Vechiatto, who died in September 2022

HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'

Rishi Sunak made the long-awaited announcement at Prime Minister's Questions after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'