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Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride is reportedly plotting moves to encourage stay-at-home mums to return to the office, including an advertising blitz and a letter writing campaign

A grim survey by the Sutton Trust found that hard-pressed students are also skipping meals, cutting down on socialising, using less electricity and gas and spending less on supplies

JCVI bosses issued the fresh guidance as they revealed that the universal Covid vaccine programme would end this year - and urged healthy Brits who haven't had their booster to get jabbed while they have a chance

Earlier today the Prime Minister's press secretary repeatedly refused to answer questions over whether Rishi Sunak had ever been asked to pay a penalty by HMRC like under-fire Tory Nadhim Zahawi - but later clarified that he hadn't

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ordered his ethics chief Sir Laurie Magnus to launch an investigation into Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs as he scrambles to quell a fresh Tory sleaze row

Rishi Sunak promise to restore 'integrity' to Government after Boris Johnson's time in Downing Street was dominated by allegations of sleaze and scandal. Let's see how that's going...

The Shadow Foreign Secretary said that police fines for both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunk while in No10 - and Tory legislation that aimed to flout international law 'damages our moral authority and political credibility'

Tory Caroline Nokes said the row over Nadhim Zahawi's taxes was a 'hangover from Prime Ministers past', in a swipe at Boris Johnson whose time in No10 was dogged by allegations of sleaze

A row over his tax bill threatens to derail the career of the top Tory, who arrived in the UK from Iraq as a 11-year-old and has since held some of the most senior jobs in Government

Millionaire Sam Blyth, a distant relative of Mr Johnson, allegedly stepped in to acted as a guarantor to up to £800,000 of credit to fund the ex-PM’s his lavish lifestyle when he found himself in financial trouble in 2020

It comes as the the Tory Chairman desperately clings onto his job amid warnings the row over his tax affairs has made his position "untenable"

Allies of the Cabinet Minister said he had no plans to quit despite paying a multi-million pound penalty to resolve a dispute with HMRC but critics said he had questions to answer

As the PM reels from his fine over not wearing a seatbelt, Boris Johnson is facing fresh calls for a probe over an £800,000 loan, while Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs are under scrutiny

Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham leader said the Government must offer a double-digit pay rise to NHS staff instead of 'dancing round their handbags' as thousands of workers prepare for walkouts

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Bucha and Borodyanka to the north of Kyiv on Sunday morning, the scenes of some of the worst atrocities committed by Russian forces during the war

Conservative MP Lee Anderson claimed there was a 'whole industry' behind food banks leaving people reliant on help - but Lib Dems said it was a 'direct result of industrial scale neglect' by the Tories

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's claim was branded a 'dog ate my homework excuse' by critics as questions mount for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and under-fire Tory chairman Nadhim Zahawi

It's only the latest mishap from Prime Minister, who has been branded 'out of touch' for a series of gaffes and missteps. Here we look at some of Rishi Sunak's most bizarre blunders

The Prime Minister defied Tory calls to reduce the tax burden in the upcoming Budget as well as billionaire businessman Sir James Dyson who said the Government's economic policy was 'stupid'

The Prime Minister denied that the £2billion for more than 100 projects across the country was 'pork barrel politics' - as furious Tories branded it a 'f**k up of epic proportions'

The Mirror has spoken to teachers who are poised to strike on why they plan to join walkouts as talks between union bosses and the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan failed to break the deadlock

The GMB union said more than 10,000 paramedics, emergency care assistants and call handlers would down tools on February 6 and 20, and March 6 and 20, in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay

The Chancellor was accused of airbrushing out Liz Truss's disastrous economic policy as he blamed Covid, the war in Ukraine and rising energy prices for inflation in a bizarre two-minute video

The NEU will hold talks with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan today in bid to avert strikes due to start on February 1. The industrial action is set to affect more than 23,000 schools

The Government will publish draft legislation setting out its plans for a ban on conversion therapy, which forces people to change or deny their sexuality