All news by author: Ashley Cowburn

In a bombshell report the BBC said the Post Office 'failed' in its efforts to suppress key evidence that later helped to clear wrongly convicted postmasters

The Labour leader Keir Starmer will order health bosses to prioritise children caught up in record NHS waiting lists and will 'personally monitor' progress if he wins power

Fellow Labour MPs expressed sympathies as Sir Tony Lloyd said he will be 'leaving hospital to spend the time I have left with my family'

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Tory MP Sir Jake Berry clashed over why it took an ITV drama on the Post Office scandal to jolt the Government into action for victims

Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was Cabinet Secretary under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, suggested Labour could win between a 50-100 seat majority

Keir Starmer is promising to have compulsory teeth cleaning in breakfast clubs and to ban vapes being advertised to kids to turn around poor health if Labour win the election

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was awarded a CBE in 2019 to services to the organisation despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart over the Horizon IT scandal

The Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the law will force landlords to fix homes 'within strict new time limits and take immediate action to tackle dangerous damp and mould to help prevent future tragedies'

The Labour leader Keir Starmer faced repeated questions at a New Year's speech on taxation - but insisted he would not announced 'uncosted' tax plans like failed ex-PM Liz Truss

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has led to an avalanche of new signatures on a petition on 38 Degrees to strip ex-Post Office chief of her 2019 CBE award

The Institute for Government warns time is running out for Labour to discuss its plans for government with the civil service if Rishi Sunak calls a general election in May

Tory minister Kevin Hollinrake has conceded that hundreds of payouts in the wake of the Post Office scandal are still yet to be finalised amid fears many of its victims might pass away before being compensated

The Tory peer Shaun Bailey questioned former Countdown host Carol Vorderman status as a 'serious political commentator' as he appeared on GB News last week

It comes after victims of the scandal still waiting for compensation accused the Government of dragging its heels - 24 years after their wrongful convictions for stealing

Labour's analysis says by 2024-2025 a family with two adults working full time on the National Living Wage will pay £1,320 more a year due to Tory stealth taxes

More than half - 55% - of private renters on housing benefit are also worried about becoming homeless because of sky-high costs, according to a survey for the charity Shelter

The indsutrial action, which is set to start at 7am tomorrow morning and end at the same time next week, will see junior doctors walk out as NHS England's medical director warned of "one of the most difficult starts to the year" ever

NHS England's medical director warned the NHS may have to deal with 'one of the most difficult starts to the year' it has ever faced as junior doctors prepare to walkout for six days

According to official figures buses in England drove 300million fewer miles than in 2010 - a massive fall of over 22% - despite being the most popular form of transport

In a brutal verdict on the Tories' record in office, a majority also believe life has got worse in Britain since 2010, including among more than half of those who voted Conservative in 2019

Poll for The Mirror shows over 70% of people believe MPs should be given a free vote on assisted dying as Dame Esther Rantzen calls for public to be given a 'choice'

Dubbed 'Britain's FBI' the National Crime Agency opened a probe back in May 2021 into 'suspected criminal offences committed in the procurement of PPE contracts by PPE Medpro'

Over the past 12 months Keir Starmer has cemented a healthy double-digit lead over Rishi Sunak's Tories - leading many to believe he will be the UK's next PM. Here are the challenges he faces

The former PM who was forced from No10 after just 49 days in office has showered gongs and peerages on allies and cronies - with one award for every four-and-a-half days she was in Downing Street