All news by author: Dave Burke

Downing Street says Rishi Sunak believes the Government is doing an 'outstanding' job, a day after Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said she's only rate it as 'good'

Australian actress and singer Ms Vallance attended the launch of the Popular Conservatism group in Westminster with husband Nick Candy to watch Liz Truss and Lee Anderson speeches

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who crashed the economy during her disastrous 49 days in Downing Street, demanded tax cuts at a Popular Conservatism launch event

Animal rights groups including the RSPCA and the Dogs Trust have hit out after the Government failed to live up to its pledge to ban electric shock collars on February 1

Joseph Appiah, known as Cleeshay, called for new laws on joint enterprise cases, which MPs heard is a 'miscarriage of justice on the same scale as the Post Office Horizon scandal'

Rishi Sunak said delivering 'day-to-day things' matter to the public, not 'constitutional change' as he was quizzed on remarks by First Minister Michelle O'Neill

A report by the Academy of Medical Sciences revealed an 'appalling decline' in children's health with the UK's infant survival rate now worse than in 60% of similar countries

It costs £491 for someone to apply for leave to remain in the UK, but bereaved people whose partners have passed away are challenging a rule which lumps them with a £3000 penalty

The UK and the US struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen overnight in the third wave of airstrikes this month as David Cameron issued a warning to Iran

Ministers face growing calls to scrap fees of nearly £3,000 for people whose British partner dies to be allowed to remain in the UK ahead of a High Court showdown

Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick came under fire as he claimed 'naive' vicars and priests are tricked by asylum seekers when commenting about the Clapham acid attack

Tories have been accused of 'busting the budget' after Home Secretary James Cleverly said he needed an extra £2.6billion to plug a Home Office budget black hole

Disheartened MPs have written to Home Secretary James Cleverly warning that conditions on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, are 'clearly' causing mental health issues

Hardliner Sir Desmond Swayne made the Hannibal Lecter-like suggestion that fly-tippers should be 'garrotted with their own intestines' during a House of Commons debate

Mike Freer, whose Finchley and Golders Green constituency office was set alight at Christmas, said threats and attacks have caused an 'intolerable stress' for his family

The leader of Kent County Council told MPs that new post-Brexit biometric border checks could see queues of more than 14 hours - more than the current worse case scenario

Archbishop Justin Welby, ex-Supreme Court President Baroness Hale and Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti want to overhaul Rishi Sunak's bid to revive his deportations plan

Dame Andrea Leadsom said businesses will have to "adapt" after fears over the impact of post-Brexit checks - as polling showed 70% of Brits think Brexit damaged the economy

A poll of 2,000 18 to 26 year olds found that over half want to reverse Brexit, while the NHS, the environment and the economy are their top concerns ahead of the general election

Labour MP Jess Phillips demanded parents convicted of child offences are automatically banned from having custody of their kids, branding it 'state sanctioned child abuse'

The Office for National Statistics believes there could be 74million people living in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 12 years' time - up from 67million in 2021

Labour's Shadow Policing Minister Alex Norris has tabled an amendment to the Government's Criminal Justice Bill demanding tougher action to protect retail workers

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned unnecessary bureaucracy is hampering efforts to tackle knife crime as she claimed the Home Office under the Tories 'isn't doing its job properly'

In a scathing assessment of the Safety of Rwanda Bill in the House of Lords, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said 'we as a nation can do better' and branded it 'damaging'

Figures show there were more than 400,000 shoplifting cases in England and Wales last year, with retail chiefs demanding tougher action to tackle worrying crimewave