All news by author: John Stevens

Health Secretary Steve Barclay took the Royal College of Nursing to court after warning the union does not have a mandate to stage the walkout beginning this weekend

Oil and gas firms paid £4.4billion in windfall tax payments in the past year, which is way below the £7.2billion the government had forecast

Labour's Rachel Reeves accused the government of destroying many people’s hopes of getting on the housing ladder as mortgage costs have soared since Rishi Sunak became chancellor

Politicians from 18 countries including Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain condemned the Tory government's attack on the right to strike

Shadow Environment Secretary Jim McMahon is trying to force through legislation that would impose automatic fines on water companies dumping waste in rivers and seas

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been warned that Tory peers will attempt to scupper the controversial Illegal Migration Bill, on the day the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) gave a scathing verdict on the plans

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is under pressure to act after Thomas Cashman refused to leave his cell when he was sentenced for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool

The Redfield & Wilton poll found three times as many people supported the Royal College of Nursing decision to reject the 5% pay rise than disagreed

In total, 43,758 people were pronounced dead as soon as an ambulance reached them last year. Government sources insisted there was no evidence the deaths were a result of delays

Garry Mogg, 63, pleaded: "Come on ambulance, where is the ambulance?" as he waited for paramedics to arrive at his home in Bath, Somerset, after he suffered chest pains

Neil O’Brien’s spouse is GP engagement lead for Circle Health Group, which performs operations on NHS patients at its 54 hospitals across the country

Details of investments worth hundreds of millions of pounds that are owned by the PM's heiress wife Akshata Murty were not included on a list of ministerial interests

Ex-Cabinet ministers Priti Patel and Robert Buckland warned that efforts to get people back into work "risk being held back” by tight-fisted rules on Statutory Sick Pay

Stuart Peach is standing for the Conservatives in Ashfield where party deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP. It is too late to remove him from the ballot paper where he will be listed as a Tory candidate

Royal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen said the PM faces punishment at the ballot box as she urged Tory ministers to enter talks to avert fresh hospital strikes

The Conservative Party is refusing to say whether it will take any disciplinary action against Stuart Peach. He is standing to become a councillor in Ashfield where Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP

At least £61million is being spent annually in England on the extra provision from private firms as ambulance services struggle to respond to emergency calls

All children will be forced to study maths up to the age of 18, but ministers may introduce a new easier qualification so not everybody will have to do the subject at A-Level

The Maternity Disparities Taskforce was supposed to meet every two months to lead efforts on reducing the number of deaths among women from ethic minority communities and poorer areas, but it has not met since last July

The Royal College of Nursing will hold a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday, April 30 to 8pm on Tuesday, May 2, including the Bank Holiday Monday

Hospitals across England will face unprecedented disruption as the Royal College of Nursing announced the strikes will take place in a fortnight - possibly to coincide with action by junior doctors

The Royal College of Nursing will hold a 48-hour walkout that will include A&E and cancer unit staff for the first time, before holding a vote on a further six months of possible strikes

Conservative candidates standing in next month's local elections have been delivering leaflets boasting that they have taken their areas 'from debt free to debt ridden'

Ministers are under pressure to clamp down on people-smuggling gangs as record numbers of migrants are expected to risk their lives making perilous journeys in small boats

Andrew McBride has been suspended by the party but it is too late to remove him from the ballot paper where he will be listed as standing for the Conservatives at next month's local elections