All news by author: Sophie Huskisson

Rishi Sunak pledged to raise the smoking age up by 'one year, every year' so that a 14-year-old today will never legally be sold a cigarette and their generation will grow up smoke-free

Prison experts hit back at the 'half-baked idea' and said jail leaders will 'be in despair at such a superficial response to their very real and urgent concerns'

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson made the comment during a heated panel at the Tory conference where he also joked that dictators were a 'good idea'

The Tory conference panel event featured an audience member confronting Tory MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tom Hunt about whether their language around migration has stirred up racism

The Mirror’s bombshell Partygate tape showed Malin Bogue twirling around at the 'Jingle and Mingle' bash in Conservative HQ as socialising indoors was prohibited

Junior doctors and consultants will walk out for three days from Monday in their longest period of combined strike action - but 42% of people point the finger at ministers

Michael Gove said state schools should provide a more rigorous education, giving the example of one academy that provides activities like 'putting on a play in ancient Greek'

The Runnymede Trust warned 'urgent action must be taken to boost racial literacy and address discrimination in our schools' in a manifesto with recommendations for politicians

The number of serious criminal cases waiting to get to court has reached a record high with the Crown Court backlog hitting 64,709 at the end of June this year

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the challenges around the world 'are too great' and that the 'important, special relationship' between the UK and the US must be maintained

Party members, MPs and staff sang the words from a hymn-style booklet at the Liberal Democrats' conference's infamous annual singalong event, Glee Club, in Bournemouth

Labour research reveals the Tory-Lib Dem coalition - in which Ed Davey was a Cabinet minister - cut nearly 17,000 police officers, 16,000 staff, and 5,000 PCSOs

The Lib Dems have called for the Russian Embassy to pay the £6million congestion charge bill and for the money to be donated to Ukraine by UK authorities

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey, whose party obtained the damning figures on operation cancellations, said it is 'a scandal that patients are being so catastrophically let down'

A community nurse, 59, who works in the independent sector in the south of England, said it was a 'shock' to be excluded from the pay deal - meanwhile others continue to strike

Chris Kaba, 24, was unarmed when he was shot and killed in south London last year - the head of the CPS cautioned there should be 'no commentary' while the murder case is active

The PM had consistently refused to say whether the key policy would be included in the Conservative Party ’s manifesto at the next election but

The former US President praised the PM for having 'very substantially rolled back ridiculous "Climate Mandates"' after Rishi Sunak weakened his net zero targets this week

An estimated 2.8million women and girls are living in period poverty, which is a lack of access to sanitary products and menstrual hygiene education or facilities

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged that a Labour government would ensure the budget watchdog cannot be 'gagged' as Liz Truss tried after her mini-Budget a year ago

The man argued that rich people cannot afford green policies as he defended Rishi Sunak's climate U-turn in an exchange with Fiona Bruce on BBC One's Question Time

Rishi Sunak want to replace A-levels with a new British Baccalaureate that would see children study more subjects, but Labour has dismissed the idea as an 'undeliverable gimmick'

The Mirror-backed Hunting Trophies Bill is intended to stop British big game hunters bringing home body parts of animals, including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears

Former Commons Speaker John Bercow will be a contestant on the US version of The Traitors alongside Love Island winner Ekin-Su. He was shamed in a bullying report last year

The Conservative Party has chosen Nigel Gardner to run for the new Harpenden and Berkhamsted seat which has been created due to boundary changes at the next election