All news by author: John Stevens

Senior Tory Michael Gove apologised to families who lost loved ones for the mistakes made during the Covid pandemic as messages from Dominic Cummings were shown to the Covid Inquiry

The former Prime Minister will face difficult questions at the Covid Inquiry across two days, including over claims he said he was willing to 'let the bodies pile high'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised a 2p cut to the rate of national insurance in the Autumn Statement in a desperate bid to turn around the Tories' dire poll ratings

Doctors said the Chancellor's failure to cough up extra cash for the NHS in the Autumn Statement will mean patients are forced to wait for hours on trolleys in A&Es this winter

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will announce Universal Credit and state pension rates as he unveils the Government's tax and spending plans in the Autumn Statement

Treasury minister Laura Trott said tax cuts announced in the Autumn Statement would include ones that help individuals, such as slashing income tax or national insurance

Labour's Liz Kendall and Wes Streeting warned it would be 'unforgivable' for the Government to 'stand by and do nothing' about mental health in the Autumn Statement

The former Prime Minister who is no longer an MP dressed in ceremonial robes as he took his place in the House of Lords this afternoon, officially becoming Lord Cameron

The Conservatives vowed at the last election that they would not raise national insurance, but Rishi Sunak hiked it as he took the country to its highest tax burden in 70 years

The Liberal Democrats, which commissioned the polling, warned that the crisis in the health service is damaging economic growth as people are forced to take time off

The IPPR warned teachers are being driven out of the profession by the stress caused by high-stakes Ofsted inspections as it called for the end of one-word ratings

More than 125,000 families in Cabinet ministers' own constituencies will be £23.7million worse off if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt meddles with Universal Credit in Autumn Statement

The Public Accounts Committee found 700,000 pupils are in schools that need major rebuilding or refurbishment as it warned the deterioration of classrooms is affecting learning

The TUC and Tax Justice UK have issued a last minute plea urging the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, not to slash inheritance tax in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt cut the duty charged on draught pints by 11p in August, but at the same time increased levies on all other alcohol by an average of 10.1%

The Redfield & Wilton poll found almost a third of voters (29%) believe new Foreign Secretary David Cameron achieved nothing at all in his six years as Prime Minister

Conservative MPs have suggested the Prime Minister could call an election if his latest attempt to salvage his Rwanda migrant plan gets blocked by the House of Lords

Former Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis has started working as a senior adviser for LetterOne. He now has five paid roles on top of his job as the MP for Great Yarmouth

The House of Commons rejected a demand for an immediate end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, despite Keir Starmer suffering the biggest rebellion of his leadership

The Find Out Now poll conducted in the wake of Monday’s reshuffle found support for the Tories has fallen even further in the past fortnight as Labour makes gains

The Prime Minister refused to condemn the Conservative Party Chairman after he suggested that minister 'should just put the planes in the air now and send them to Rwanda'

A poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of Labour Together asked the public to describe Rishi Sunak's immigration policies in their own words as the Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched a fresh broadside at Rishi Sunak after the Supreme Court ruled the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful

Former Boris Johnson aide Charlotte Owen, who is only 30-years-old, thanked the ex-Prime Minister for giving her a life peerage in his controversial resignation honours

Ahead of economic figures being published on Wednesday, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused 'out of touch' Rishi Sunak of not doing enough to bring down people’s bills