All news by author: Ben Glaze

The Green New Deal Rising group has piled pressure on Keir Starmer over a wealth tax and policies to tackle climate change, as the countdown to the next ballot intensifies

The Prime Minister and French President will hold negotiations at the Elysee Palace on tackling the crisis of people boarding inflatables for the journey from Northern France to Kent

Section of controversial high speed train project is put on the back-burner as Government blames increased costs but Labour says the North is paying the price for Tory incompetence

Trade body Maritime UK has published a document outlining how UK companies can capitalise on the huge expansion in offshore wind power planned for the coming decades

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said some of those on the soldier sick list were waiting for appointments with a dentist - and would be sent into battle "if the balloon went up"

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey faced calls to deploy a batch of British fighter planes to "backfill" air defence roles in countries which have aircraft bteter suited for Ukrainian forces

The Scunthorpe-based company, which announced plans for hundreds of job losses last month, revealed it had netted a deal for a Guinea freight line

The Greater Manchester Metro Mayor piled pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer to back the Mirror's calls to extend free school meals to all primary school pupils in England

The two-time Labour leadership hopeful left the door open to a Westminster comeback - but insisted he was 'genuinely excited' about more powers being handed to the North.

The Shadow Chancellor urged the Government to push ahead with lifting the tax on companies' profits from 19% to 25% when Mr Hunt delivers the Budget next Wednesday

The Greater Manchester Metro Mayor spoke exclusively to the Mirror on the margins of the Transport for the North conference in Newcastle

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh told the Tories to 'Get on with it, stop wasting taxpayers’ money as she renewed the party's promise to construct the track's eastern leg

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh will promise to 'spark a northern renaissance' by reversing the Tories' betrayal on Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2 and vow to 'turn the page on a decade of decline'

Ex-PM Boris Johnson 'knew of law breaches' because he was THERE as MPs probing whether he lied to Parliament give damning verdict and new bashes come to light

Leaked messages appear to show former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock were at loggerheads during the pandemic over the extent of Tory lockdown measures

GMB general secretary Gary Smith called on the Government to look at how President Joe Biden is planning to boost American manufacturing by switching to green power

The finding comes after grocery price inflation soared to 17.1% - adding £811 to households’ annual shopping bills - and with the Government under pressure to do more to help hard-up households

Matt Hancock's leaked messages reveal that ministers and officials made jokes about people arriving in the UK during the Covid pandemic being locked up in quarantine hotels

The study comes as the world prepares to mark International Women's Day next week with a focus on "equity"- and the Living Wage Foundation said: "True equity needs to start with a Real Living Wage"

A poll for GB News reveals support for speeding-up the probe chaired by Baroness Hallett, following disclosures in the "Lockdown Files" - a leaked cache of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages

Labour's Alex Davies-Jones triggered a Commons debate about the wave of closures sweeping villages and town and city centres as people switch to cashless online transactions

Fareshare has written a letter, signed by 1,020 organisations, to Rishi Sunak telling the Conservative leader: “The UK has a hunger crisis and your Government is absent"

A survey for the pro-EU European Movement UK revealed support for Kyiv joining the Brussels bloc - on the same day NATO's boss said Ukraine will join the alliance in the long-term

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg declared war-torn Ukraine will be admitted to the alliance in the long-term, as he began talks in Helsinki with Finnish leaders

The Office for Statistics Regulation has written to the ministry's communications supremo after a controversial post by the Treasury showing small falls in the cost of living