All news by author: Dave Burke

Ministers face calls to outlaw the controversial LD50 test which sees animals fed chemicals until half die, and also bring in a blanket ban on experiments on dogs

Home Office figures show 434 Americans have applied for asylum in the UK in the past decade, with one in seven being granted refugee status or similar protections

Lord Deben, who was Tory chairman while Margaret Thatcher was PM, said the Iron Lady wouldn't have approved of the current Government saying it's 'not conservative'

Atiqul Hoque, mayor of Salisbury in Wiltshire, was expelled from the Conservative Party after an investigation into claims of anti-Semitism, but has vowed to clear his name

Rishi Sunak promised to stop the boats, grow the economy, cut NHS waiting lists, reduce debt and halve inflation - but he's had a tough time delivering on his pledges

Critics have lashed out over the 'Rishi recession' announced this morning - just hours after a mega-poll showed the Tories could be left with just 80 MPs after the election

Esther Ghey said social media firms need to show more moral responsibility as she paid tribute to her daughter, who she said initially wanted to be known as Britney

Rachel Reeves says Rishi Sunak's economic policies are "in tatters" after ONS data showed the UK entered a recession at the end of last year in a hammer blow to the PM

An alarming report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) found that people leaving the armed forces who lack proper support are vulnerable to far-right extremists

Former Home Secretary Ken Clarke is the latest Margaret Thatcher-era Tory grandee to hit out at the Rwanda Bill, which he told the House of Lords is 'extremely dangerous'

Tory MP Jonathan Gullis said he and his colleagues shouldn't 'have to live like that' after a string of high-profile cases have seen MPs, including Tobias Ellwood, targeted

Home Office officials have reportedly drawn up a shortlist of celebrities in Albania who they want to post TikTok videos discouraging people from travelling to the UK by small boat

Labour leader Keir Starmer has been criticised after the party originally backed Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali over Israel remarks, only for further comments to come to light

Rishi Sunak was met at Teesside International Airport in Darlington by an RAF jet which had travelled just over 200 miles from London as he filmed a GB News show

It is claimed Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali lashed out at "people in the media from certain Jewish quarters", leading to Labour withdrawing support for him

Lord Tugendhat, who is the uncle of Home Office minister Tom Tugendhat, savaged the Government's Safety of Rwanda Bill that he described as 'quite extraordinary'

Rishi Sunak's official spokesman insisted the PM has no concerns about US President Joe Biden's mental agility after an report questioned the 81-year-old's memory

New polling by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) found that Sir Jacob Rees Mogg, Jeremy Hunt and Therese Coffey are among the Tory MPs at risk of losing their seats

Rishi Sunak claimed the economy has 'turned a corner' as he faces a tricky week which could see official figures confirm the UK went into recession at the end of last year

Some of the most senior Church of England bishops including the Archbishop of Canterbury have demanded changes to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill in a crunch week in the House of Lords

Nick Candy, who attended speeches by Liz Truss and Lee Anderson with his wife Holly Valance this week, admitted it's "probably time for a change" and praised Keir Starmer

Nadine Dorries claimed Rishi Sunak 'lied'when he said he occasionally talks with his old boss Boris Johnson and said the PM is 'overtly disrespectful' toward him

Plans unveiled by Home Secretary James Cleverly include £1,000 fines and possible jail sentences for people who wear masks, bring flares and climb on war memorials during protests

Polling by More in Common found just a quarter of people under-45 would sign up to fight in the military if conscription was brought back amid calls for a 'Citizen Army'

Carol Vorderman has called on Rishi Sunak to resign as Prime Minister after he made his trans joke despite being told Brianna Ghey's mum Esther was in Parliament