All news by author: Dave Burke

The Institute for Government (IfG) has issued a list of shame highlighting areas where the public is being let down with NHS waiting lists soaring, councils going bankrupt and the prison service in crisis

Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of being 'asleep at the wheel' as new analysis found over three quarters of burglaries and car thefts went unsolved in 12 months

Body coach Joe Wicks said he met with the former Prime Minister but turned him down because he didn't think Boris Johnson was sincere about the public health project

Cross-party MPs have raised a string of doubts over the Home Secretary's ability to clear a mammoth backlog and deal with "unacceptable" costs, warning of 'alarming' compromises

Charity Care4Calais, which supports refugees, has announced it plans to take the Home Office to court in a battle over RAF Wethersfield

The MP, who was stripped of the Tory whip last week, left his victim a 'broken shell' after the 'physical, emotional, psychological abuse' he endured

Rishi Sunak refused to condemn remarks by failed Conservative candidate Andrew Cooper, who said jobless parents struggling to feed their children should 'f*** off'

Giles Watling demanded that imports of foie gras are banned, saying the recent bed bug outbreak highlights the dangers of disease being brought into the UK - but a Tory minister refused to commit

A new report by charity Unseen says hundreds carers have been forced to work long hours to pay off illegal debts by unscrupulous employers with the Government failing to act

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that 50 of an estimated 400 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be emptied by January, but was challenged over whether they'd be in marginal seats

Tory MP Nick Fletcher, who rents out six houses and four flats in South Yorkshire, claimed that giving tenants extra rights would lead to landlords selling up

At a summit in Downing Street, bosses at 13 major retailers including John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-Op, backed new plans to use facial recognition to identify violent and persistent offenders

Tory ministers have announced they will stop sending to people to jail for sentences shorter than a year, meaning thousands of shoplifters will no longer be locked up

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the chants were "completely reprehensible" and "inciting terrorist violence", as he pledged that ministers would speak to Scotland Yard

Israel's former PM Naftali Bennett warned that terrorists will target the West with a fresh wave of atrocities saying: 'If you think it's not going to hit London you're mistaken'

Ms Dorries launched a scathing attack on Paul Holmes, saying he would learn "the hard way" at the next election, also claiming his seat was "gifted" to him following the Mid Beds by-election hammering

The Chancellor faces a tough battle to keep his seat, with experts saying he could be among several big names to lose out when the country next goes to the polls

The Labour leader said members of his wife Victoria's family are living in Israel and experiencing a 'deep sense of shock' following the attacks by Hamas terrorists at the weekend

The Labour leader highlighted The Mirror's campaigning as Shadow Cabinet ministers showed off their singing skills at a party raising money for the charity Buttle UK

The Labour leader shrugged off the bizarre glitter attack, which led to a 28-year-old man being arrested. Following the drama he outlined plans for a "decade of national renewal"

The Shadow Home Secretary said watching footage shown to her by a grieving mum of her son dying from a stab wound was "one of the hardest things I've done in the job"

A total of 39 migrants were put on the barge moored in Portland, Dorset, in August, but they were removed within days after legionella bacteria was discovered in the water supply

Lawyer James Elliott read out a chilling letter received by his office which threatened to "deal with" those who assist asylum seekers - saying someone will be killed if politicians don't dial down hate speech

A panel at the Labour Party Conference heard retail staff are 'under siege' with violence and abuse soaring, while Hazel Blears demanded 'radical thinking' to tackle the crisis

Sabir Zazai, chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, told a Labour Party Conference event that if he arrived now he would be 'threatened with Rwanda' and 'treated like a criminal'