All news by author: Dave Burke

A harrowing report by Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, found black children are six times more likely to be strip searched. The youngest child strip searched between 2018 and mid-2022 was just eight

The UK Statistics Authority has written to the government after three ministers including Mr Sunak claimed in December that the current backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office - whereas official figures show it is 150,000 higher

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and the European Commission's Maros Sefcovic agreed to adopt the new Windsor Framework which is aimed at undoing some of Boris Johnson's botched deal

Polling by YouGov found 66% of voters believe the shamed former Prime Minister knowingly misled the House of Commons, with just 15% thinking he did not. This is despite his pleas of innocence to the cross-party Privileges Committee

Labour MP John Spellar has put forward a Private Member's Bill calling for the law to be changed to ensure cricket test matches and Six Nations matches are permanently available to watch for free on TV

Edi Rama, who is the UK ahead of a meeting with Rishi Sunak, voiced his anger at the way Albanians have been singled out by the Home Secretary

Mr Johnson is fighting for his political future as the Commons Privileges Committee probes whether he misled Parliament - which could see him suspended

The DUP's Jim Shannon said I Will Always Love You - which was later covered by Whitney Houston - means the world to his wife and urged the House of Commons to wish the country icon "continued success"

MPs were told that 15 million people in the UK use cash for budgeting, and businesses which only accept cards have a negative impact on those on lower incomes, the elderly and disabled people

Angela Kilmartin wrote on Facebook: "I don't want pride sex flags along my High Street. I don't even want heterosexual flags along my High Street." She was suspended by Witham Constituency Conservative Association following the comments

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said party officers had today voted unanimously to oppose the Windsor Framework when MPs get a vote in the Commons on Wednesday - and right-wing Tories could also rebel

Damning analysis by the TUC ruled that by next year, household disposable incomes will have fallen for nearly half of the time the Conservatives have been in office

Labour has hit out at the 'warped' decision to spend an estimated £1.5 million on state-of-the-art phones for Department of Health staff last year, while just £1 million was set aside for new life-saving defibrillators

Thousands of fat cat bosses were left toasting Chancellor Jeremy Hunt after he scrapped the top limit on tax-free pensions savings, a move which has been branded a "pensions bung to the wealthy"

Mr Johnson will be grilled by members of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee in a televised hearing on Wednesday, and could be suspended if he is found to have misled the Commons over Partygate

Labour's Karen Buck has called on the government to help drivers switch to greener vehicles and back controversial Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) as Public Health England figures show up to 36,000 die each year due to exposure to air pollution

The Home Secretary has travelled to capital Kigali, where she hopes the UK can start sending asylum seekers by the summer after more than a year of legal wrangling

The NSPCC charity says online sex abuse cases targeting children rose by 11% between April and September last year - with around 120 reported to police every day, exactly a year after the long-delayed Online Safety Bill was first put before MPs

The Government will splash more than £1 million on making screens available across the UK so people can gather to watch the coronation of King Charles on May 6

MPs will get a vote next Wednesday on the Stormont brake aspect of Rishi Sunak's Windsor Framework, which was agreed with the EU last month in a bid to undo the worst excesses of Boris Johnson's deal

In a blistering condemnation, Labour's Jess Phillips asked the Prime Minister what she should say to the next trafficked woman who is being repeatedly raped who comes to her for help

Jeremy Hunt has announced a cash injection to provide childcare for one and two year olds, but critics warn overstretched providers won't be able to keep up with demand

Keir Starmer lashed out at "cancel culture addict" Tories who tried to "cancel a football highlight show", accusing the Prime Minister of "hiding behind playground bullies" who disagreed with the Match of the Day host

Jeremy Hunt will set out the Budget today - his second big financial statement since last October when he was appointed Chancellor to steady the ship following Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous mini-budget

Jeremy Hunt will provide an extra 30 hours free childcare a week to working parents of one and two year olds, as well as access to breakfast and after-school clubs for primary pupils