All news by author: John Stevens

The Redfield and Wilton survey reveals that the the public is overwhelmingly in favour of Alan Bates getting an honour after he exposed the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

The Government has backed the Pet Abduction Bill, which was put forward by Tory MP Anna Firth, after ministers angered campaigners by dropping their own legislation last year

American fitness trainer Cody Rigsby questioned how Rishi Sunak can start his day 'working out to a flamboyant gay man' and then hold 'such a narrow view on gender'

Loudmouth Tory Lee Anderson and his pal Brendan Clarke-Smith quit as the party's Deputy Chairmen to join a Commons rebellion on the PM's Rwanda migrant deportation plan

David Campbell Bannerman, chairman of the Conservative Democracy Organisation, said the party's MPs will be responsible for 'Harakiri' if they fail to remove Rishi Sunak

Lee Anderson, the Conservative Deputy Chairman, is expected to back rebel amendments seeking to toughen up legislation aimed at getting the deportation flights off the ground

Downing Street has signalled that Alan Bates could get a knighthood after thousands joined our call for the former postmaster who exposed the Horizon scandal to be honoured

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner

Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE

Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail

Just 93 of the 900 sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted after the faulty IT Horizon system made it look like money was missing have had their convictions quashed so far

Paul Scully, who was Post Office Minister, said the Treasury demanded a value for money exercise was done before agreeing to giving further money to victims including Alan Bates

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson promised to take action to bring down the cost of buying school uniforms as a 'matter of urgency' if Labour gets into power

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said that rather than hike levies on wages such as national insurance and income tax, a Labour government would strive to cut them

Chris Skidmore announced he is quitting as a Tory MP over Rishi Sunak's environmental policies. In a resignation statement, the former minister wrote: 'I can no longer stand by'

Tens of thousands of ordinary voters across the country are being questioned on what they think King Charles' role should be with the results sent to Buckingham Palace

The plans for the levy, which will likely increase the cost of vaping liquid by at least a quarter, will be unveiled in Jeremy Hunt's Budget on March 6

Home Secretary James Cleverly - who is facing calls to resign after he joked about giving his wife a date-rape joke - has been branded 'Colonel Calamity' by Tory MPs

The Conservatives will find it harder to cling on to seats at the next election as Nigel Farage's old party Reform UK vows to stand against its MPs for the first time

Richard Meddings, the chairman of NHS England, has said he is 'fearful' of the impact that junior doctor strikes may have on patients as hospitals are already struggling

The Fawcett Society said Home Secretary James Cleverly could not be trusted to address violence against women after the Mirror revealed he joked about giving his wife Rohypnol

Conservative peer Michelle Mone complained that she is being treated like the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar as her bank accounts are frozen by the National Crime Agency

Home Secretary James Cleverly has been been criticised by former Love Island contestant Sharon Gaffka, who was a victim of drink spiking, after he joked about Rohypnol

Blackpool South MP Scott Benton faces a 35-day suspension for breaking lobbying rules after a sleaze watchdog rejected excuses, including that he was distracted as it was noisy