All news by author: Dave Burke

Overnight analysis of Jeremy Hunt's Budget by the Resolution Foundation raised the alarm about public service cuts and highlighted a huge drop in disposable income since 2019

Suella Braverman said Jeremy Hunt's Budget doesn't 'tell the British people that we're on their side and that work really pays' ahead of a brutal post-election leadership race

Delivering his Spring Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said £230million is being ploughed into technology to free up officers, including drones that can be used as first responders

Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has previously described scrapping the non-dom tax status as the 'wrong thing to do' and suggested rich foreigners could leave Britain

Science Secretary Michelle Donelan published a grovelling apology to Professor Kate Sang after falsely suggesting that the academic had expressed sympathy for Hamas

Birmingham City Council, which effectively declared itself bankrupt last year, has passed a budget which will see council tax rise over 20% in two years with £300million of cuts

Science and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has apologised to Prof Kate Sang after demanding a probe into false claims she supported Hamas after the October 7 attack

The number of people arriving by small boats across the Channel since Rishi Sunak became PM has passed 40,000 with more crossings so far this year compared to this point in 2023

Tory heavyweights including Ken Clarke were among those who blasted Rishi Sunak's controversial Safety of Rwanda Bill, which faced widespread opposition in the House of Lords

Lee Anderson shouldn't have been suspended for his attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, which has been branded Islamophobic, according to two thirds of Conservative Home members

Former chief borders inspector David Neal warned protection of the UK's borders is 'neither effective or efficient' as 13 reports were finally released by the Home Office

A report by the National Audit Office uncovered a string of add-on fees agreed by ministers with the Rwandan government, with Labour branding it a 'national scandal'

Labour MP Jess Phillips told the House of Commons the list of 101 women who were killed or allegedly killed by men in the last year is 'testament to our collective failure'

Matt Hancock, giving a speech at Eton College, decided to brand Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg a bad politician, only to learn his son Peter was in the audience and having none of it

A damning report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warned Home Office 'chaos' is costing taxpayers millions of pounds with 55,000 in permanent limbo

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was picked up three times from a field near his home amid accusations of using RAF helicopters as "Britain's most expensive Uber"

In a mammoth evidence session in Parliament, MPs grilled former subpostmasters and Post Office bosses about delays to compensation to victims of the Horizon IT scandal

Former subpostmaster Alan Bates voiced his frustration at slow payments to victims as he branded the Post Office a 'dead duck' and suggested it should be sold to Amazon

Former sub-postmaster Alan Bates told MPs that the Post Office will be a 'money pit' for years to come and called for it to be sold following the Horizon scandal

Frustrated LBC host Nick Ferrari kicked Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson off his show for refusing to say if Lee Anderson's remarks about Sadiq Khan were Islamophobic

An RAF helicopter flew from London to a field in Defence Secretary Grant Shapps' Welwyn Hatfield constituency, where it picked him up to take him to Yorkshire for Cabinet

The number of MPs who say they have no confidence in Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has reached 77, up from 71 on Friday amid anger over last week's Gaza ceasefire vote

Former Tory minister Paul Scully claimed in a radio interview that parts of Tower Hamlets in London and Sparkhill in Birmingham were 'no-go areas', sparking an angry backlash

WhatsApp messages shared between Tory backbenchers show anger about Lee Anderson's suspension in a racism storm with MPs griping that they'd faced a backlash from voters

Lee Anderson was suspended on Saturday following a vile attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan which has been branded Islamophobic - but the door has been left open for his return