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Officials have refused to release details of a probe into DWP minister Guy Opperman's donation from a 'dining club' linked to a firm where he gave speeches

The Prime Minister appeared to play down the prospect of an imminent agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol, amid speculation one could be announced early next week

The Prime Minister said "the whole world must hold Russia to account" for war crimes against Ukraine and criticised the agreements of the "post-Cold War era" for failing Ukraine

The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who is Rishi Sunak's new deputy Tory chairman, appears in photographs with Skegby Scooter Club regular who supports white supremacist punk bands that reference Adolf Hitler

Thousands of basic mobile phones were handed out during the pandemic to help keep track of those being supervised by the probation service, including prisoners temporarily released on licence to reduce overcrowding in prisons

Ministers want 90% of 11-year olds to meet expected standards in reading, writing and maths by 2030 - up from 53% seven years ago

Jared O'Mara's political career is one of the most chaotic episodes in modern politics. Here's how he went from local bar DJ to being jailed for tens of thousands in fraud

Unmesh Desai, the deputy chair of the London Assembly’s police and crime committee, has written to Met commissioner Mark Rowley asking him to take “new information into account” and revisit the inquiry

O’Mara, 41 was convicted yesterday of six counts of fraud, after he and members of his staff attempted to submit fake expense claims worth £24,000 in the name of a fictitious disability support charity

The under-fire Deputy Prime Minister fixed Mr Starmer with a hard, unblinking stare, shooting daggers at him for a solid seven seconds

The judge said O'Mara had been accused of trying to fraudulently claim up to £30,000 in taxpayers' money to fund an "extravagant lifestyle - drink, cigarettes and, above all, cocaine"

The pledge was a key plank of Boris Johnson's 2019 general election manifesto - and Rishi Sunak will be banking on progress ahead of an election

Liz Truss' bonkers 4,000-word comeback essay has prompted quite a lot of reaction this sunny, Sunday morning. Here's some of the best comments and funniest responses to her comeback bid

In a 4,000 word screed, Liz Truss blamed everyone from the "economic establishment" to Joe Biden for getting in the way of her bonkers plan for unfunded tax cuts - but even her own ministers say her plan was to blame

Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said the idea that Ambulance workers didn't provide minimum cover while on strike is an "absolute, utter lie"

Last night, Labour's Shadow Climate Secretary Ed Miliband branded Grant Shapps "do-nothing" over his response to the scandal

The disaster-prone ex-PM complained she was never given a "realistic chance" to implement her wild, uncosted tax-cutting rampage because a "powerful economic establishment" got in the way

Government estimates show they have provided half a billion pounds worth of PPE that has been left unused.

The super rich were given privileged access to senior ministers at undeclared dinner parties arranged by the billionaire hired as chief Tory treasurer by Rishi Sunak

The ex-Prime Minister, ousted after just 50 days after a string of disasters, mis-steps and a mini-budget that threatened to crash the UK economy, thinks she has “lost the battle but this is a long game.”

Sir Jake Berry says the Deputy Prime Minister should be treated like any employee in the private sector, where people facing bullying claims would be stood aside while they're being investigated

According to his press secretary, the Prime Minister only occasionally looks at the news online, and reading the newspapers is "not something he does every morning"

Billionaire Mohamed Mansour is co-owner of a company with a subsidiary supplying machinery to Russia's oil and gas industry, despite sanctions imposed since Putin's Ukraine invasion

The day - March 15 - was chosen to commemorate the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 people were killed and 40 others injured