All news by author: Dave Burke

Former No10 aide Dominic Cummings provoked outrage during lockdown when he drove to Barnard Castle to "test his eyesight". Brutal responses showed people still haven't forgiven him

In her latest rant, Home Secretary Suella Braverman accused police of "playing favourites" over protests, claiming far-right thugs are met with more aggression than left-wingers

In a staggering WhatsApp exchange, Simon Case, now Cabinet Secretary, told his predecessor that the people in the then-PM's inner circle were "basically feral"

Lord Mark Sedwill, who was Cabinet Secretary at the start of the pandemic, admitted emergency planners "couldn't cope" with the crisis and warned of "stupid decisions" in a dispute over Mr Cummings' data

A long-awaited ban on laughing gas aka nitrous oxide comes into effect today, doubling the maximum sentence for dealers to 14 years with tough punishments for those found in possession

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, including in the King's Speech, will see the legal age for buying cigarettes rise by one year every year with new restrictions on vaping

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will chair the meeting, expected to include intelligence service and police chiefs amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict

Documents released alongside the King's Speech reveal the Government is considering a new duty on vape sales and a ban on disposable devices alongside a new cigarette ban

King Charles today read out the Government's plans as Rishi Sunak desperately tries to cling to power, with a cigarette sale ban and a shake-up of renting rules among measures announced

Dr Ben Warner, who scrawled the word in a February 2020 meeting with scientists, said ministers should have drawn up lockdown plans as soon as China and Italy did so

Last autumn there were an average of 3,069 people sleeping rough in England - up from 1,768 in 2010, as pressure piles on Rishi Sunak to distance himself from the Home Secretary

The shamed former Prime Minister is claimed to have made the remark in a meeting in January 2021, when he demanded restrictions were fully lifted by September

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a 'disturbing postcode lottery' in responses to grade two priority crimes - which include burglaries, missing persons and domestic incidents

Bombshell witness statements from former advisor Dominic Cummings say the then-PM had to be "stopped" from seeing the Queen days before lockdown

The BBC presenter hasn't appeared on her Sunday Morning With Laura Kuenssberg show since the beginning of last month with colleague Victoria Derbyshire stepping in

In an often foul-mouthed and frequently chilling three days, Downing Street insiders shared memories and WhatsApp messages that demonstrated the scale of the turmoil in Boris Johnson's government

The Prime Minister will sit down with the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X - formerly Twitter - for a chat to be broadcast on the social media platform this evening after a speech on AI

Since 2018 there have been 219 cases where a person convicted of exposure have gone on to commit violent sex crimes such as rape, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, with the Lib Dems warning the justice system is failing women and girls

LBC host Nick Ferrari told Oliver Dowden he would be 'bloody certain' where taxpayers' money was going if he was Deputy PM as the Tory minister struggled to answer questions

In a scathing series of WhatsApp messages Mr Cummings said the former PM was "melting down" in the buildup to the first lockdown and branded officials "terrifyingly s***"

In an explosive day at the Covid Inquiry, damning WhatsApp messages were shared showing officials thought Boris Johnson made dealing with the pandemic 'impossible'

Tory Minister Richard Holden said it would have been 'similarly embarrassing' if World War Two messages existed after the Covid Inquiry released messages about Boris Johnson

The Labour leader will give a speech reiterating his call for a "humanitarian pause" allowing Palestinians to escape, but will say that a ceasefire would allow Hamas to plan more attacks on Israel

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman are set to meet national security officials and top cops amid fears the conflict in the Middle East has heightened the threat of terror attacks in the UK

Backbenchers Nadia Whittome and Lloyd Russell-Moyle will today speak to people forced onto the Bibby Stockholm in Dorset, which reportedly costs taxpayers £800 per person each night