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Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the move was another example of the Home Office 'flailing around' and failing to tackle criminal gangs organising border crossings

Flitwick Town Council in Bedfordshire said residents are 'desperately in need of effective representation' at Westminster and hits out ex-Cabinet minister's work on television

More than two-thirds of local councils in England have either cut or frozen the value of support offered to families entitled to free school meals to help them get through the summer holidays

Figures earlier this year showed that one in 10 people were have resorted to "DIY dentistry"in desperation as MPs called for urgent government reform

Nigel Farage told Today programme presenter Nick Robinson 'I'm sick of your condescending tone' in a heated exchange came after Mr Robinson teased the former Ukip leader about his seven failed attempts to become an MP

The grim milestone in the latest official figures includes over 13,000 households forced to live in B&Bs and 5,890 in hostels as housing crisis worsens

Cabinet minister Michael Gove insisted the Tories remain committed to a 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars - a day after Rishi Sunak wobbled over the deadline

Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said hundreds of thousands of families are 'grappling with the Tory mortgage bombshell" as budgets are squeezed by hikes in interest rates

Labour's Lisa Nandy says the housing crisis has 'gone from bad to worse' after 13 years of Tory rule with the building of new homes in the country 'falling of a cliff'

The disgraced ex-PM previously had not been able to provide all his messages as he had forgotten the passcode to his old mobile phone

Describing her daughter's killers as a 'coward' Cheryl Korbel said she wanted jailed Thomas Cashman to 'listen to the pain that he's caused, the pain that we went through and the pain we are still going through'

Ministers have hurried out dozens of official reports, statements and transparency data before the Commons adjourned for the summer recess on what's known in Westminster as 'Take out the trash' day

The Labour leader will this weekend gather with party officials and representatives behind closed doors to begin thrashing out key ideas for the party's next manifesto. The Mirror looks at the key debates.

Mish Rahman was seeking to stand as Labour's candidate in Wolverhampton West - a marginal constituency the Tories won from Labour in 2019 with a majority of just 1,661 votes

The controversial austerity-era policy is set to be raised at a meeting of the party's top team on Tuesday with a Shadow Cabinet source saying: 'A lot of us are deeply troubled by it'

North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll, who was blocked from standing for a new role as North East Mayor, said he had been left with 'no choice' but to quit the Labour Party and stand as an Independent

The analysis comes 10 years after the controversial policy, which restricts the total amount of support a household can receive, was first introduced as part of an austerity drive

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) which oversees the work of spy agencies including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, said the UK had 'consistently failed to think long-term' and details 'serious' failings

The exchange came after Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner used PMQs to attack the government over the 'Tory mortgage bombshell'

Members of the NASUWT union voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions

A protestor standing directly behind the Labour leader said 'we need a Green New deal right now' - a reference to the party's decision to water down its £28billion pledge

Unions demanded a 'step change in the culture of behaviour' after one parliamentary aide alleged a male MP had pressured her to sit on his lap

The Liberal Democrats also claimed Mr Sunak had 'thrown in the towel' over his poor attendance record at the weekly grilling in front of MPs

The Prime Minister also awkwardly laughed off a question over whether he would issue his own peerages and gongs to allies if he is ousted from No10 at the next general election

The onslaught in the upper chamber came just a week after the Government's defeat at the Court of Appeal over plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda