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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'

Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE

Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

At least nine former Cabinet ministers, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, are seeking to amend the Rwanda Bill during crunch debates next week

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

The Government of Great Britain would be much, much better – not hard, admittedly – if it were run like BBC TV show The Traitors - with regular Banishments to keep the cast fresh, and always on their toes

Dame Andrea Leadsom made the baffling remark during a debate on the chronic shortage of NHS dentists, with MPs told Taylor Swift tickets are easier to get than an appointment

Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper estimated that the Government has pledged almost £400million to Rwanda, with additional payments of around £200,000 per person sent there

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

TV presenter and TalkTV host Alex Phillips has taken to social media to share that she was attacked by a mugger on a bike as she walked along London's Oxford Street