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The Covid inquiry has heard that the Government 'lost control' of the pandemic and 'abandoned basic public health protection' when it privatised the Test and Trace system

The Covid Inquiry has showed that Boris Johnson was in a blue funk during the Covid-19 crisis and he should never be allowed to hold public office again, says Paul Routledge

Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled plans for an extra 700,000 emergency appointments to stop 'horror stories of DIY dentistry' after reports of patients yanking out their teeth

The Compass campaign group has published details of 14 constituencies where the Lib Dems are best placed to topple the Conservatives - and urged Labour supporters to switch allegiance

The Prime Minister trumpeted a string of transport schemes that could be funded instead of completing the high-speed railway to Manchester. We examine his claims and promises

Welsh Senedd Member Jack Sargeant recalled the terrifying moment he and King Charles Cavalier Coco were targeted by two off-the-lead Staffordshire Bull Terriers

Latest Home Office figures show 145,214 hate crimes were reported in England and Wales last year, up from under 105,000 five years ago. Despite a slight overall fall, transgender hate crime rose by 11%

The Prime Minister cracked a joke about the former Scottish First Minister, who was arrested in June as part of a probe into SNP finances. An Alba Party politician has alleged contempt of court

Nigel Farage blasted former GB News co-star Laurence Fox during an appearance on Good Morning Britain where he admitted he agreed with the channel's decision to sack him

Until yesterday the Prime Minister insisted no decision over HS2 had been reached - but it later emerged he had filmed an announcement video in Downing Street days earlier

Desperate Rishi Sunak has confirmed HS2 is being scrapped between Birmingham and Manchester in a move set to spark a massive backlash at the end of Tory Party Conference

Rishi Sunak, who was then Chancellor, also ignored warnings by the Government’s senior scientific and medical advisors, Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir Chris Whitty, the Covid-19 Inquiry heard

West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin said the decision would "punish passengers and businesses alike"

Rishi Sunak's decision to pull the plug on the high speed trainline from London to Manchester is a damning indictment of this Government's ability to deliver what is needed

Rishi Sunak bizarrely claimed that after 13 years of Tory rule voters will be choosing change if they back him at the election during his first conference speech as Conservative leader

The Mirror's Jason Beattie provides his analysis after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attempted to take the conference stage to defend the Conservatives’ record in power

Rishi Sunak has decided to axe the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester over soaring funds, despite polls suggesting the PM faces backlash from the public

Comedian Joe Lycett has written a savage open letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman after she has been slammed for saying being gay or a woman is not enough to quality for asylum

BBC Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire clashed on air with Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester

The Home Secretary was accused of using vulnerable people as "cannon fodder" following her Tory Party speech in Manchester in which she claimed a "hurricane" of migration is coming

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt made the announcement at the Conservative Party Conference and from next year two million workers will be £1,000 better off

Rishi Sunak, leader of Conservative Party, is now prepared to do or say anything to cling to high office, Voice of the Mirror argues, and the Tories are "not to fit to rule"

The Prime Minister has sought to pitch himself on the side of motorists following the Tories' shock by-election win in Uxbridge and South Ruislip - which was dominated by a row over ULEZ

The PM will use his first conference speech as leader to complain the Westminster system isn't working and try to shift blame onto Labour - despite 13 years of Conservative rule

Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey says the Tory party conference is using disabled people to distract from their own damage to taxpayers