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Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood vows to tackle shoplifting as she told The Mirror how her family was racially abused as the till was stolen from their shop when she was younger

Representatives from Vodafone and Three have told MPs that the merger of the two mobile networks could create thousands of new jobs in the sector, amid ongoing scrutiny of the proposed deal

Peter Bone, 70, was hit with the sanction 24 hours after it emerged he faces a six-week ban from the Commons for bullying and sexual misconduct against a member of staff

Richard Madeley is 'sorry' for an 'insensitive' question he asked a guest on Good Morning Britain this week, which led to ITV viewers calling for the host to be sacked

Andrew Cooper is standing for the Conservatives in the Tamworth by-election on Thursday after previous MP Chris Pincher was forced to stand down following a sleaze scandal

Ex-Tory MP Anna Soubry said constituents in Mid Bedfordshire have the 'power' to deliver a 'shock' to British politics by voting for Labour's Alistair Strathern

The UK economy is in a "horrible fiscal bind" as it heads for recession and with no room to cut taxes or increase public spending amid mounting political pressure on the Chancellor to do so, according to a report

Wages are now rising faster than prices for the first time since October 2021, according to official figures

A Commons researcher complained to the Conservative Party in 2017 that Peter Bone had flashed at him and thrown pens and pencils at him, but the MP is only facing suspension now

Colin Stagg, the man who was wrongly accused of ­murdering young mum Rachel Nickell has revealed he is living in a homeless ­shelter after blowing £706,000 in compensation. It's not the only high profile miscarriage of justice to rock the UK

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says weak economic growth and stubbornly high inflation leave “no room” for unfunded tax cuts or spending increases any time soon

Four families have told how they are struggling to put food on the table during the cost of living crisis as a YouGov survey shows that almost 30% of Brits are now being forced to skip meals

A slaughter of innocent Palestinians who are unable to flee Gaza wouldn’t only be intolerable but could ignite an even wider Middle East conflict - we must continue to urge restraint

Andrew Bridgen, who joined the Reclaim Party after being kicked out of the Conservatives, demanded that Tory Crispin Blunt apologises over the disagreement in Parliament

The Tory minister in charge of prisons told MPs on Monday some low-level offenders handed sentences of less than a year will be spared jail and instead ordered to scrub graffiti off walls

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak updated MPs on the latest details from the terrorist attack, telling 10 Britons were missing and some of those were feared dead following the carnage unleashed

Christian Lindner, German finance minister, has said that the UK has a 'standing invitation' on any future talks on reducing trade barriers or 'obstacles in daily business life'

Conservative MP Peter Bone could be banned from Parliament for six weeks after a watchdog found he had engaged in a 'wilful pattern of bullying' including 'sexual misconduct'

The move could push an additional 400,000 UK children into absolute poverty

Conservative MP Peter Bone was also ruled to have thrown pens at his victim, bullied and belittled him and repeatedly requested massages, according to Parliament's Independent Expert Panel

A group of 30 charities warned Rishi Sunak that delay to progress of the Renters Reform Bill 'causes more avoidable hardship and suffering, and with it, greater cost to the taxpayer'

Estimates from the Migration Observatory at Oxford University and the London School of Economics (LSE) suggest around 250,000 to 350,000 more people will arrive than depart a year by 2030

Convicts including killers and rapists will be deported and banned from the streets in a new plan laid out today as ministers battle serious capacity issues in prisons

MPs on both sides of the divide are concerned that Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are not being forceful enough in urging restraint by Israel, writes Kevin Maguire

All hope must not be surrendered despite the rising death toll from the Israel-Hamas war - but the UK must call for Israel's response to the attacks to be proportionate so civilian casualties are minimised