All news by author: Dave Burke

Home Secretary James Cleverly said he "regrets" the hurt he caused by joking about giving his wife date rape drug Rohypnol on the day the Home Office announced a crackdown on spiking

New NHS Digital data shows there are 62.9 million registered patients - even though England's population is estimated to have been around 57.1 million in 2022

PM Rishi Sunak faces a bruising year as he goes into a general election campaign heading a divided party and trailing Keir Starmer in the polls - with a lot of battles on the way

A total of 29,437 asylum seekers reached the UK by making the dangerous journey across the Channel in 2023, with one in five of them having fled the Taliban in Afghanistan

In a New Year's Day message, Doug Barrowman maintained his innocence and claimed it is "curious" that only PPE Medpro is facing legal action when there are over 170 disputes over Covid contracts

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK is weighing up strikes on Houthi insurgents behind a string of attacks on freight vessels in the Red Sea, aimed at disrupting vital trade routes

A survey found one in seven patients who tried to get an appointment carried out treatment on themselves or got someone with no medical qualifications to do it as the Tories come under fire

Dire polling released today reveals that Rishi Sunak is the most popular leader in just four of the 632 constituencies in the UK - with Keir Starmer even ahead in his Yorkshire safe seat

The disgraced former Prime Minister shared a message with GB News, where he is set to present his own show in the build-up to the general election

A long list of tycoons were named as Sirs and Dames in the New Year Honour's List, including Brexit-backing Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin, who has given money to the Tories in the past

Rizwan Javed, who works on the Elizabeth Line in London, has 29 suicide intervention commendations and is among hundreds of unsung heroes celebrated in the New Year Honours List

Jilly Cooper has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours list. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly spoken of his love for her racy novels, including bestseller Riders

Mary Earps, Millie Bright and Lauren Hemp joined diverse figures from Sajid Javid, Tim Martin, Tony Blackburn and the Archbishop of Canterbury on the New Year Honours List

In what are expected to be Rishi Sunak's final months in No10, a string of new laws are set to be added to the statute books in a frantic scramble before the general election

The former Prime Minister was "wholly against" a public inquiry to find out if there were police failings before Ian Huntley murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002

Papers released by the National Archives show Tony Blair was in favour of returning the 2,500 year old sculptures to Athens as part of a sharing deal in a bid to secure the 2012 Olympics

A previously-secret report written while Tony Blair was Prime Minister suggested deporting refugees to Turkey, Kenya and South Africa in the early 2000s

Johnny Mercer claimed Fred Thomas, who is aiming to unseat him at the general election, had 'served five minutes in uniform' - when in fact he was a Royal Marine for seven years and rose to Captain

Rishi Sunak has been urged to step in after Johnny Mercer raged at Carol Vorderman and his Labour election rival Fred Thomas for highlighting a rise in homelessness among veterans

The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee said prisons are at 'crisis point' as they warned that short sentences often teach people how to be 'better' criminals

Figures show there are over 400,000 cases of advance fee fraud a year, which sees victims conned into transferring cash, with around 77% committed by criminals outside the UK

Newly-released files show Tony Blair thought moving Wimbledon FC to Northern Ireland should be encouraged in the 1990s - although the club eventually moved to Milton Keynes

In a New Year message to members, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) chief Pat Cullen warned of more industrial action over staffing levels amid dangerous shortages across the NHS

Liberal Democrats health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper said the rise in hospital floods and fires should be a 'wake up call' for Tories who need to fix crumbling buildings

No10 confirmed Jeremy Hunt has commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare an economic and fiscal forecast to be presented to Parliament on that date.