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Government documents show Ms Truss was responsible for some 51% of government spending on foreign flights, accommodation and meals during 2022

Despite Britain facing a worsening obesity epidemic, MPs and staff members tucked into more than 50 orders of scones and tea a day in 2021-22

The Sunaks own a £5million luxury apartment in Santa Monica, about an hour’s drive from Disneyland - where park tickets can cost up to $244 (£191.40) per person, per day

The typical mortgage holder is now paying an extra £220 a month when they go to re-mortgage and it is said to be "devastating" the construction industry

Steve Barclay, Health Secretary was warned in February, 30 NHS hospitals and buildings were at risk of collapse but, that month, he et representatives from boutique interior designers Bon Collective

For his latest trip the PM borrowed a Tory donor’s chopper to go to a routine campaign event in North Wales just 200 miles away. The equivalent journey from London to Wrexham would only have taken around 10 minutes longer by train.

More than half a billion items of PPE, which were bought in China and never left China, have now been burned in China

Last week, in line with a recommendation by a damning report on Britain's ban on LGBT+ people in the military, the PM finally said sorry in a victory for campaigners and the charity Fighting With Pride.

The Prime Minister claimed to have "virtually eliminated" 18 month waits for NHS treatment - but 7,300 people are still waiting a year and a half or more for treatment

The call comes as Labour's Lisa Nandy warned Brits faced a "double whammy" of unaffordable house prices and skyrocketing rents

The Housing Secretary will tomorrow set out plans to make it easier for property developers to convert office blocks and shops into homes without applying for planning permission

Speaking at the party’s National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must “learn the lessons” from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge

Bereaved relatives of victims will deliver a letter to Number 10 on Monday ahead of Mr Sunak’s evidence to demand action on setting up a body to administer full compensation

The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace both made apologies in the House of Commons for the shameful treatment of troops under the military gay ban

Despite claiming to understand the “challenges” families are facing with skyrocketing mortgage payments, this newspaper can reveal he does not have a mortgage on any of his multi-million pound UK properties

David Cameron's infamous warning has become a widely mocked harbinger of Britain descending into the banter timeline. And a new poll shows just 28% of voters believe the former PM was right in his prediction

Keir Starmer said: "A long standing Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Ann was a leading figure in the Labour Party, dedicating her life to our movement."

Labour’s analysis of government figures found rocketing interest rates are now likely to require three times the £30,000 figure people had to save just a year ago

The top Tory, who was once tipped as a future Prime Minister, has said he won't stand at the next election, after 18 years as an MP

According to official labour market statistics, there were 230 fewer small and medium-sized housebuilders last year as there were in 2010 - as the building of new homes in the UK has fallen

Rishi Sunak faces a triple humiliation in Thursday's by-election bonanza - and the mood among his backbenchers remains grim

After crashing the economy and tanking the pound with her disastrous mini budget last September, the failed former Prime Minister this week launched her ‘Growth Commission’ - a “task force” to “fix the economy”

As ministers prepare to jet off on extended summer holidays this week, the Chancellor is being urged to scrap the increase in duty on spirits on 1 August, and will add as much as 10p to the price of a G&T

The Committee on Standards in Public Life called for tighter rules for 'Unincorporated Associations' - but the government has shelved their report after accepting just a handful of their 47 recommendations

The Shadow Chancellor said Labour's housebuilding plan would put rocket boosters under the industry as the party focuses on stabilising the economy