All news by author: Lizzy Buchan

Unions accused the Government of being 'disingenuous and cynical' after calling time on weeks of talks over draconian minimum service levels in schools without warning

Some of the country's most powerful mayors will kick off a bombshell week of evidence at the Covid Inquiry - which also see Dominic Raab, Michael Gove and Matt Hancock interrogated

Tory Home Secretary James Cleverly was forced to apologise in Parliament for using 'inappropriate language' during Prime Minister's Questions - but insisted he had insulted the Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham rather than Stockton

Heart attack and stroke victims should be seen by paramedics within 18 minutes on average - but NHS England data shows targets were missed in every region in England in October

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie, who was carrying their young son Frank, attended the demonstration in London against anti-Semitism

Non-protected Whitehall departments in England face being slashed by 3.4% a year for five years to fund Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's tax cutting plans, economists have said

Unison General Secretary Christina McAnea expressed alarm over Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick's push to cap NHS and social care visas, and ban foreign care workers from bringing dependents

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he would challenge Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer over the 2,500-year-old artefacts on a visit to the UK

Analysis found an eightfold increase in the number of knighthoods or damehoods awarded to sitting MPs since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 - with two thirds handed to serving Tories

In a speech in Blackpool, Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner will warn that Red Wall seats in the North and the Midlands have been treated as a 'bargaining chip to get into power and tossed aside'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans for a deep squeeze for public services in the Autumn Statement, paving the way for a period of renewed austerity after the next election

The former Tory Prime Minister piled pressure on Rishi Sunak to bring down net migration, which rose to 745,000 in the year to December 2022 - mostly on his watch

A Unison survey of more than 13,000 support staff such as teaching assistants, caterers and cleaners found nearly all (96%) worry their pay isn't enough to cover their bills

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 1.2 million people moved to the UK and 508,000 left in the year to June 2023 - meaning 672,000 more people arrived that departed

Analysis by the Resolution Foundation said richest Brits are most likely to benefit from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement, which saw cuts to National Insurance that will likely be wiped out by Tory stealth taxes

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that the Autumn Statement contained the 'biggest package of tax cuts since the 1980s' but his boasts have quickly unravelled. Here's what's in the small print

Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool's Champions League match before lockdown should have been cancelled

Ex-Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance handed his private diaries to the Covid Inquiry which detail extraordinary claims over the running of Government during the pandemic

Top scientist Sir Patrick Vallance kept a bombshell diary on the Government’s handling of the pandemic that details the chaos in Downing Street, including Boris Johnson's actions

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday with updates for households on taxes, pensions and benefits including Universal Credit

Tory MP John Glen told a Conservative gathering at Cambridge University last month that his elderly mother was 'perfectly comfortable' and didn't need the winter fuel payment

Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza called for Rishi Sunak to help struggling youngsters with a Play Out to Help Out scheme - mimicking the Eat Out to Help Out initiative to kick-start hospitality after lockdown

Nearly four in 10 people said the revelations heard by the Covid Inquiry this week had worsened their opinion of the Tories’ pandemic record, according to a survey by More in Common

The veteran backbencher insisted 'I am not a racist' at a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, but he was fined £600 and ordered to pay £835 in legal costs after telling an activist to 'go back to Bahrain'

Hard-line Home Secretary Suella Braverman wants to fine charities who help desperate people camp out on the streets as part of a new bill in next week's King's Speech