All news by author: Ashley Cowburn

Amanda Spielman's remarks came after Ms Perry's sister said pausing inspections would be the 'empathetic, human, correct thing to do' while a review takes place

The unrepentant former Cabinet minister also demanded a leak inquiry as he blasted a 'trial by media' after he was forced to resign as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary

The Deputy PM resigned on Friday after the long-awaited report by Adam Tolley KC concluded he engaged in an 'abuse or misuse of power' while at the Foreign Office

The US President warned that 'peace is precious' as he became the fourth American leader to address both Houses of the Irish Parliament, the Oireachtas, in Dublin

The PM attempted to defend the policy, saying it would help ensure elections are 'high-integrity processes' - despite any evidence of large-scale voter impersonation

Category one patients - the most severe - waited an average of 14 minutes for an ambulance to arrive in the Health Secretary's parliamentary seat of North East Cambridgeshire

Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister was accused of having 'zero shame' as she blamed the 'co-ordinated resistance' during her disastrous time in No10

Ms Truss, who aborted her plan to cut taxes for the richest Brits while in No10, will argue 'low taxes, limited government and private enterprise were what won the Cold War'

Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Tory ministers had been 'asleep at the wheel' over cash lost to fraud and error by DWP

Ex-Cabinet minister David Davis said he would like to see ministers delay the multi-million pound policy and re-think, but admitted the Government was unlikely to do so at this 'late stage'

The Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy says the Tories are 'missing in action in the fight against crime' across the country as the party gears up for the local elections

Keir Starmer also hailed the historic peace deal signed on April 10 1998 as one of the 'proudest achievements' of the Labour Government under Tony Blair

Previous research by Ofcom - the communication's regulator - said that 45million had been on the receiving end of potential scam texts or calls in the summer of 2021 alone

General Secretary of the teachers' union - NASUWT - Dr Patrick Roach said over the weekend strike action could be "on the cards" for his union in the summer

In a statement ahead of the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Trades Union Congress and trade unions in Northern Ireland urge Rishi Sunak to ditch a bonfire of EU regulations

Braintree District Council, which opposes the plans, said in a statement it has been given the green light for an injunction hearing at the High Court on April 19

The DWP study has been kept under wraps since it was completed in 2020 but it was finally published on Thursday after the Information Commissioner's Office ordered its release

Six years after the controversial policy - one of ex-Chancellor George Osborne's austerity measures - was first rolled out, a Child Poverty Action Group survey shows families struggling to pay food and energy

Blackpool South MP Scott Benton was secretly filmed by reporters boasting of his access to ministers in a meeting with fake gambling investors

The Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Jess Phillips also detailed the the toll of the 2017 Westminster terrorist attack and the murder of two MPs

In typical fashion the Government published a series of written statements, documents and reports as MPs head on a two-week break. Here The Mirror looks at some of the news that slipped out on the last day before recess

General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak says millions of people get just £99-a-week - 'nothing like what a family needs to get by'

The state pension age is due to rise to 68 from 2044, but reports earlier this year suggested ministers wanted to bring that forward - potentially as early as 2035

The Conservative Party did not invite national media to the launch following warnings they risk losing more than 1,000 council seats across the country when voters head to the polls on 4 May

Margaret Ferrier faces the severe punishment after the ex-SNP MP travelled hundreds of miles by train to London from Scotland in September while awaiting a Covid test result