All news by author: Dave Burke

Experts warn high interest rates are having a chilling effect on the jobs market after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the unemployment rate has risen to 4.3%

Ministers have been accused of letting perpetrators get away with "environmental vandalism on an industrial scale" following a report by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP)

Average pay - including bonuses - went up by 8.5% between May and June, new data shows. This means the state pension is likely to go up by at least the same amount

Jonathan Gullis, a leading member of the New Conservatives faction, outlined a list of demands after penning a report warning the UK is 'lagging behind' on vocational skills

Reports of the spying allegation have sparked alarm in Westminster, with Rishi Sunak yesterday confronting the Chinese Premier after the accusation came to light

A gang of right-wing MPs known as the New Conservatives have demanded Rishi Sunak targets 'low-achieving' students and accused universities of 'exploiting' the dreams of young people

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said around 40 prisoners were taken out of the Category B prison as a probe into how terror suspect Daniel Khalife got away is carried out

Former PM Liz Truss is penning a loftily-titled book called Ten Years To Save the West, in which she's expected to lash out at the 'global left' and the 'Greta Thunbergs of this world'

The former Prime Minister accused Mr Trump - who is bidding to become US President again - of exploiting Americans and turning on scapegoats, while also slating Hungarian PM Viktor Orban

West Lindsey District Council has issued a temporary stop notice, forcing workers on the site - where Suella Braverman wants to house 2,000 asylum seekers - to down tools

The Department for Education (DfE) faced a huge backlash after warning school leaders that those who don't return a RAAC survey by today could be "named and shamed"

Manchester-based Supreme 8 Ltd gave £350,000 to the party in May, a year after giving another £50,000. Its offerings include watermelon bubblegum and cotton candy ice-flavoured vapes

Frank Hester, chief executive of The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), gave the largest individual donation to any political party between April and June this year

The Government faced calls to release all written advice sent to Mr Sunak when he was Chancellor and PM about the dangers of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC

Tory Dr Andrew Murrison said that so far 15 messages have been found that were wrongly sent to Mali - which is aligned with the Kremlin - rather than the US military

In a testy exchange at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Keir Starmer fumed that crucial work on schools recommended way back in 2010 had yet to be carried out

Liz Truss's time at the top may have been short, but there was no shortage of drama during the shortest-serving PM's 49 days of chaos and calamity in Downing Street

Gareth Davies, who heads the National Audit Office (NAO) said ministers must invest heavily in Government computer systems to avoid a crisis similar to crumbling concrete in schools

Mr Sunak said he would welcome the Catterick Garrison barracks in his Richmond patch in Yorkshire being used to house asylum seekers - but Sir Edward Leigh said this isn't happening

Three grieving widows wrote a heartbreaking letter to Tory Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick begging him to scrap an almost £2,500 fee for partners whose British spouse dies

The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission has said a huge resources gap needs to be closed if any future Government hopes to tackle inequality in the UK

The Education Secretary was captured on camera complaining that no one thanks politicians for doing a 'f***ing good job because everyone else has sat on their a***s and done nothing'

Nadine Dorries, Liz Truss and the RSPB will all be playing on the Prime Minister's mind as MPs report back for duty after summer recess, with Mr Sunak braced for a bruising election campaign

Labour has demanded answers after it emerged Yorkshire-based The Phoenix Partnership had been handed a contract worth up to £149,866 in July last year by the UK Health Security Agency

More than 100 schools face last-minute chaos after being told they either have to close or partially close - five years after the risks of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) became clear