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The Scottish Labour leader said his party should be 'brave' and act to reform the upper chamber when it has 'maximum political capital' in the early years of winning power

A new report by charity Unseen says hundreds carers have been forced to work long hours to pay off illegal debts by unscrupulous employers with the Government failing to act

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that 50 of an estimated 400 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be emptied by January, but was challenged over whether they'd be in marginal seats

The brutal polling shows Rishi Sunak's personal ratings have also taken a tumble a year after he was picked by Tory MPs to replace 49-day PM Liz Truss as party leader

The Living Wage Foundation today releases its annual rates - and the inflation-busting hike will help boost the budgets of hundreds of thousands struggling in the cost of living crisis

Tory MP Nick Fletcher, who rents out six houses and four flats in South Yorkshire, claimed that giving tenants extra rights would lead to landlords selling up

James Cleverly racked up a bill of almost a million pounds by using private jets for two overseas trips in his job as Foreign Secretary earlier this year

The Labour leader spoke to the Mirror after visiting the UK's biggest steelworks, Tata's plant at Port Talbot, South Wales, where 3,000 posts are under threat

At a summit in Downing Street, bosses at 13 major retailers including John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-Op, backed new plans to use facial recognition to identify violent and persistent offenders

With a government announcement that every household in England will get a food waste bin, Fleet Street Fox argues humanity is doomed if it doesn't stop throwing away grub

Donald Trump asked Melania to walk around the pool at Mar-a-Lago in a bikini "so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing", it has been claimed

The Tory Party Chairman received the taxpayer-funded payout when he was sacked as a business minister in September 2022, before returning to Government four weeks later

The Commons Transport Committee said ministers must rethink plans to close ticket offices at 974 railway stations across England that will hit the disabled and elderly

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has agreed to delay ban in a bid to appease Tory rebels threatening to vote against the Renters Reform Bill as they are landlords themselves

February 24 has been earmarked as the date when a plane carrying asylum seekers who have reached the UK will depart for the Rwandan capital Kigali, it has emerged

Kevin Maguire says Keir Starmer is aware the Labour Party must gain a mammoth 125 seats to secure a basic majority of one in Parliament - and knows he should not be complacent

The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them

Ex-Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tory Party chairman Greg Hands got thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in payouts when they lost their jobs as ministers

The leader of the sector's biggest trade union has raised fears for its future following the controversial agreement over the plant, which will lead to 3,000 job cuts

Tory ministers have announced they will stop sending to people to jail for sentences shorter than a year, meaning thousands of shoplifters will no longer be locked up

Pranksters released a tape of them calling the Prime Minister’s personal mobile and getting through to his answerphone message. Downing Street refused to comment on the gaffe

The area from Hartlepool to Stockton-on-Tees has the highest shoplifting rate in the country - 15 times as many thefts each year as Surrey - with thieves openly stealing

The Chancellor faces a tough battle to keep his seat, with experts saying he could be among several big names to lose out when the country next goes to the polls

One of a number of severe results of climate change will be rising sea levels - this could see swathes of the UK's coastline affected, drawing once popular hotspots underwater

Incidents from April 1 to August 31 include a woman whose ovary was mistakenly removed and another patient whose spinal surgery was carried out on the wrong side