All news by author: Lizzy Buchan

More than 70 MPs have announced plans to quit at the next election after a turbulent period in politics - including 43 Tories, as Labour surges ahead in the polls

Just 17.6% of teenagers in the North East received the top grades of 7/A or above in their GCSE results, compared to 28.4% in London - a 10.8 percentage point gap

The RMT's Mick Lynch said the plan to shut ticket counters at 974 stations across England would result in vital staff members being cut, leaving vulnerable passengers without support

Conservative London mayoral candidate Susan Hall has repeatedly called for the festival celebrating Caribbean culture to be moved from Notting Hill, where it's been held since 1966

Accounts published by the Election Commission show Keir Starmer's party boosted its fortunes, leaving Labour with a £2.7 million surplus in 2022 - despite losing nearly 25,000 members

Schools Minister Nick Gibb has signalled that students will no longer be allowed to rely on extra support brought in to ease disruption to education caused by the Covid pandemic

Campaigners say the standard Universal Credit payment is £35 less than the cost of essentials - leading Brits struggling to afford vital medicines or bus fares to hospital appointments

Dame Alison Rose was forced to quit following complaints from the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage over the closure of his account with Coutts, the private bank run by NatWest

The Greater Manchester Mayor accused the Conservatives of 'betting the shop on culture wars' and said Labour needed to show it can bring hope as well as change to win the next election

The late Queen struck fear into Margaret Thatcher and the Tory ex-Prime Minister required a stiff drink before meeting her, according to a former political editor of the Times

Gillian Keegan said she was working to ensure disadvantaged kids aren't shut out from higher education - but said her younger self might have been intimidated by the costs

Killer nurse Lucy Letby shunned the heartbroken families of her victims as she was handed a rare whole life sentence at Manchester Crown Court for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others

Ex-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced she was stepping down as an MP on June 9 'with immediate effect' after being snubbed for a peerage, but she is still clinging onto her job weeks later

The staggering admission by the Ministry of Justice was included by mistake in an £8million contract that was published on a Government procurement website

Comic Eddie Izzard, who also goes by the name of Suzy, has thrown her hat in the ring to be Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion after Green MP Caroline Lucas announced she would stand down at the next election

GCSE pupils have been allowed extra support for their formal exams in some subjects for the past two years following the massive disruption to their education during the Covid pandemic

In a telling blunder, Tory minister Maria Caulfield said voters were worried about 'when' Labour get into Downing Street - not if - as Conservatives panic over Keir Starmer's poll lead

Norman Tebbit was Secretary of State for Employment in 1981 when he told the Tory Party conference how his jobless father had 'got on his bike' to find work in comments that caused outrage

The campaigning footballer, who twice forced Boris Johnson into U-turns over free school meals during the Covid pandemic, said he wished the Government had acted sooner to feed hungry children

Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said older Brits should consider jobs 'they might not have otherwise thought of' as ministers battle to get more people back to work after the pandemic

Greenpeace tweeted a picture of activists on the roof of the PM's Grade II listed property, which was draped in black fabric. Two protesters held a sign up in a foreground saying: 'Rishi Sunak - Oil profits or our future?'

The mega-rich Prime Minister and wife Akshata Murty, who met at Stanford University in California, own a luxury holiday home on America’s West Coast

The Prime Minister was hauled over the coals by A&E registrar Olivia during an LBC phone-in where he sought to blame strike action for spiralling NHS waiting lists

Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps clashed with Sky News presenter Jane Secker when she grilled him on why the Government doesn't have public data on the numbers of people exploiting the student visa system

In a blow to his ambitions for a pool at his £3.8million country pile, the local council’s countryside officer has lodged a holding objection over the threat to local newts from the proposed development