All news by author: Lizzy Buchan

A poll for the National Education Union found nearly nine in 10 (88%) parents outside London backed universal provision of free lunches in primary schools across England

The majority of cash-strapped local authorities in England are planning to hike council tax in April as they struggle to stay afloat after years of squeezed funding

Former Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten warned Rishi Sunak that the party 'won't stand a prayer of winning the next election' if it lurches to the right to pursue Reform UK

A quarter (25%) of women on maternity leave say they have gone without eating – sometimes all day – so they can afford to feed their families, according to a grim survey

The Prime Minister is pushing plans to merge A-levels and T-levels into a new 'Advanced British Standard', which would include a requirement to study maths and English to 18

The viral clip used artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate his voice and make it sound like he was criticising Remembrance events and demanding that pro-Palestinian marches to take precedence

Kwasi Kwarteng, who was sacked as Chancellor by Liz Truss after the mini-Budget crashed economy, warned Rishi Sunak that 'something has to change' to prevent electoral wipeout

Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman are being investigated by the NCA for their role in PPE deals worth more than £200million during the Covid pandemic

Housing Secretary Michael Gove made the guarantee today amid fears the Tories were intending to junk their commitments to no-fault evictions after repeated delays

Azhar Ali, who is standing for Labour in the Rochdale by-election this month, said his remarks about the October 7 attacks were 'deeply offensive, ignorant and false'

Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood admitted Labour needs to rebuild relations with Muslim voters after criticism of its initial response to the Middle East crisis

Junior doctor members of the British Medical Association in England will take part in another walkout from 7am on February 24 to midnight on February 28

In an interview with BBC Radio Devon, Rishi Sunak was challenged over messages from listeners who are being forced to pay for private dental care due to lack of NHS dentistry

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the promised £28billion figure was 'stood down' because interest rates have soared after the damage inflicted by Liz Truss's disastrous mini-Budget

Liz Truss, who only lasted 49 days in Downing Street, will publish the loftily titled 'Ten Years to Save the West' in April, where she will rant about the 'global left'

Labour slated the 'ludicrous' analysis of its Warm Homes plan, which was unveiled in 2021 to save 19 million families living in draughty homes cash on their energy bills

Elliot Colburn, the MP for Carshalton and Wallington, told the Commons that he had attempted to end his life in 2021 as he felt that the 'world would be better off without me in it'

Dozens of MPs from all parties have said they will quit the Westminster life rather than slug it out at the next election after a Parliament dogged by chaos and calamity

Concerns have been raised about the UK general election overlapping with the US presidential race in November, and potential global chaos triggered by a Donald Trump victory

Top Tory Kwasi Kwarteng was the architect of Liz Truss's calamitous mini-Budget, which send markets spiralling and triggered the end of her premiership after just 49 days in No10

Rishi Sunak was accused of being 'callous and downright cruel' for making a wager with TalkTV presenter Piers Morgan on whether Rwanda deportations would begin before the election

Nearly half of parents (49%) are concerned about the amount of time kids spend looking at phones and tablets, with 53% of children spending more than two hours a day in front of screens

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was criticised for agreeing to a 'deeply distasteful' wager with Piers Morgan over the crisis-hit plan to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said she would rate the Government as 'Good' using Ofsted's four-point grading scale, which ranks schools from Outstanding to Inadequate

In a TalkTV interview, Piers Morgan confronted Rishi Sunak over his 79-year-old mother's experience in hospital - as the Prime Minister admitted he has failed on his NHS pledge