All news by author: Lizzy Buchan

Some 20,000 members of the RMT union at 14 train companies will down tools on June 2 as part of a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the union announced today

More than £161million was spent during the period of national mourning after the Queen's death on September 8, which culminated in the solemn State Funeral on September 19

Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, who previously said firefighters using foodbanks should 'learn how to budget', became the latest politician to offer advice to families struggling with the spiralling cost of living

In a feisty PMQs exchange, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, who was a single mum at 16, said the Government was 'taking a wrecking ball' to measures to help kids out of poverty

The Labour leader will attempt to capitalise on Tory failures over the housing crisis after Rishi Sunak bowed to pressure from his own MPs to scrap house-building targets last year

Tory MP Flick Drummond is pushing for a legal duty on local authorities to keep a record of all youngsters being home-schooled amid fears kids are unsafe or losing out on their education

Rishi Sunak is under pressure to act over the sky-high grocery costs facing families when he hauls in supermarkets and farming chiefs to a crunch No10 summit on Tuesday

The Home Secretary is due to whine about the rising numbers of people arriving in this country - a policy area she is responsible for - in a speech to a conference of right-wingers

All the major education unions are threatening to coordinate walkouts in the autumn term if school staff back strike action, in a major escalation of the fraught dispute over teachers' pay

Hardline Tory Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-mogg suggested a 'mucky compromise' would have been made with the Kremlin if the UK had still been tied to Brussels when Russia invaded Ukraine

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members will begin voting on May 23 for further strike action up to Christmas after the union's six-month mandate expired at the beginning of the month

The Labour leader will say he doesn't care if standing up for stability, order and security 'sounds conservative' - and say Rishi Sunak's Tories preserve 'nothing we value'

University College London's Professor Sir Michael Marmot said the UK is 'on track to make child poverty worse' - and said the Government could spend more on children in their early year but refused to do so, blaming high taxes

The grim survey for the Trades Unions Congress (TUC) comes amid fears ministers will backtrack on a planned shake-up of the law to protect workers from sexual harassment and assault at work

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch was hauled to the Commons today after admitting last night that plans to let thousands of EU laws expire by the end of the year had been scaled back

State education is free but the cost of uniform, learning materials, school trips, packed lunch and transport sets most parents back at least £39.01 per week per secondary school child and £18.69 per primary child

Downing Street repeatedly declined to say whether the Tories would strike deals with the DUP or fringe parties like Nigel Farage's Reform and Reclaim, founded by actor turned anti-woke crusader Laurence Fox

Critics said expelled Tory Andrew Bridgen's 'misinformation' has no place in the Commons and demanded he submit to a by-election in his North West Leicestershire seat

The Labour leader said he was pushing for an 'outright majority' at the next general election but repeatedly failed to explicitly rule out striking a deal with the Liberal Democrats

The North West Leicestershire MP had the whip suspended in January after provoking outrage by saying the life-saving vaccine rollout was 'the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust'

Rishi Sunak notably refused to repeat the vow to recruit 6,000 more GPs by the end of next year on a visit to Southampton to promote his new pharmacies blueprint

The scandal-hit former Prime Minister has been on a moneymaking crusade since he was forced out of No10, trousering more than £5million in his first six months out of office

The watchdog has bit hit by a major backlash after headteacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January whilst awaiting an inspection judgement which downgraded her school

The union re-balloted its members at 14 train operating companies over continuing its industrial action over pay, winning a mandate for another six months of walkouts

NEU Joint General Secretary Kevin Courtney said the row will only be resolved when the Education Secretary 'faces up to the responsibilities of her role' by restarting pay negotiations with unions