All news by author: Sophie Huskisson

Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was 'scandalous', adding that MPs should have to pay their fines 'like the rest of us'

The British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee co-chair Vivek Trivedi challenged the Tory minister after he suggested doctors were being unreasonable

Former Children’s Minister Edward Timpson, whose own family fostered over 90 children, joined calls for people to consider fostering a child as he said carers have 'never been more needed'

Voters were left in tears after seeing people turned away at polling stations for not having the correct ID as rules were enforced for the first time at this month's local elections in England

Parliament is set to become a ghost town as MPs leave the the House of Commons to take a week-long break today. But how much annual leave do they get?

Conservative MP Paul Bristow was booted out of the Commons after he interrupted Keir Starmer who was grilling the PM on allowing 'uncontrolled immigration' in the UK at Prime Minister's Questions

The Bake Off judge shared the story of her brother’s 'dreadful' death as she pleaded with MPs to change the law so people with terminal illnesses don't have to endure excruciating pain

The Cabinet Office passed over its concerns relating to entries in the ex-PM's ministerial diary that showed friends visited his grace and favour house Chequers on several occasions between June 2020 and May 2021

Keir Starmer said he would change advertising rules if his party gets into power with recent figures showing as many as 9% of 11 to 15 year olds have used e-cigarettes

The arrival of their newborn baby will mean the Mr Johnson will have at least eight children - and the third the couple have together after their son Wilfred and daughter Romy

The PM, who is in Japan for the G7 summit, was grilled on how it feels to have lost more than 1,000 Tory seats in his first test at the ballot box in local elections earlier this month

Internet users who hide behind anonymous profiles will be prosecuted whether victims go on to injure themselves or not as part of additions to new online safety laws.

At a glitzy fundraising event at the Dorchester Hotel, the Chancellor urged Conservative supporters to block out all the “negativity” after the party's catastrophic local election results

In his first stint standing in for Rishi Sunak, the Deputy PM made a cringe comparison to the This Morning presenters, who are claimed to be all smiles on the surface but fighting behind the scenes

Cheaper tickets due to end next month will now remain until almost the end of 2024 after transport ministers got the Treasury to agree to a £500million package of funding to help protect bus services

Health chiefs from countries which have given ill people control over how they die shared a range of experiences in a debate on a potential change to the law in the UK

Passengers are getting increasingly worried about services being cut with many anxious about how they will get to work if local routes are cut, the Confederation of Passenger Transport said

Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed accused the Government of doing 'nothing while killers, rapists and terrorists pick and choose whether they turn up to face the consequences of their crimes'

Vulnerable people who are repeatedly targeted by thugs who stamp on their flowers or throw beer bottles in their garden are not classed as victims so are not eligible for support

The Prime Minister's spokesman said it was not up to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride to dictate tax policy after he claimed getting people back into work will boost the economy enough to reduce income tax by 2p

A Government minister was savaged by fellow Question Time panel members over 'morally indefensible' proposals to lock up refugees who reach the UK by small boats in military bases and 'prison' barges

Union leaders warned people would be working 'excessive hours' if vital EU rules are scrapped and called the move the 'latest attack' on working people's rights by the Tories

In a fiery exchange at PMQs, Keir Starmer blasted the Government for failing to support Brits as he said we have a PM 'who boasts he's never had a working class friend'

The longer semi-trailers will mean vehicles can carry more goods and therefore take fewer journeys in a bid to boost the economy and cut emissions, the Department for Transport has announced

The Prime Minister of Caribbean nation St Vincent and the Grenadines suggested British politicians would not 'permit' the King to apologise for the wrongs of slavery