All news by author: Sophie Huskisson

In a major watering down of key targets, the Prime Minister has abandoned the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. From boilers to flying, here's what it means for you

Former Climate Minister Zac Goldsmith called for a general election now as he slammed Rishi Sunak, who is expected to roll back swathes of environmental commitments this afternoon

The Prime Minister is expected to water down a bonfire of environmental commitments, sparking worries about the UK's ability to achieve its target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

Parliament has become a ghost town as MPs abandon the House of Commons for the conference recess. But how much annual leave do they get?

The gaffe-prone Education Secretary insisted pupils like learning in temporary classrooms rather than proper school buildings as the Government admitted 174 schools in England contain collapse-prone RAAC concrete

Dangerous RAAC concrete has now been found in 174 schools across England, up from 147 a fortnight ago as hundreds of pupils have their learning disrupted

The brave mum and her family handed in a petition to Downing Street calling for swords to be banned after Ronan, 16, was stabbed from behind with a 20in-long knife

The Man City plane was most recently used last month to fly its players, who include Jack Grealish, to Greece where they won against Sevilla in the Uefa Super Cup Final

An anti-racism campaign group said it has written to Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands calling for Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall to be investigated and suspended

Some 80 officers didn't attend their expected shift at Wandsworth prison on September 6 - the day Daniel Khalife allegedly escaped in his cook's uniform by 'clinging to a delivery van'

Rishi Sunak has tasked experts to define the breed of dogs behind a recent spate of attacks this week with a 'view to then outlaw them' and ban them under the Dangerous Dogs Act

Train drivers are to take strike action for two days during Tory conference in its long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, throwing travel arrangements into chaos

Panicking Tories are announcing they'll stand down at a general election as Labour storms ahead in the polls - meanwhile Rishi Sunak faces a double by-election nightmare next month

MPs said the country faces 'an enormous challenge' in improving access to primary care as he begged for stable, long-term and sustainable funding commitments for chemists

Labour's Steve Reed called on Environment Secretary Therese Coffey to resign if her department is found to have broken the law through its regulation of sewage discharges

Boris Johnson stood down as an MP earlier this year ahead of a brutal report that found he lied and lied over Partygate after the Mirror exposed lockdown-busting gatherings in No10

Ex-Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood triggered fury from fellow Tories with the clip where he credited the authoritarian regime with improving security in Afghanistan

Damning research shows as many as 330,000 retirees stopped working because they couldn’t access flexible working - the equivalent to 25% of the vacancies in the UK economy today

Most-capped Lioness Fara Williams and former The Only Way is Essex star Georgia Kousoulou will join the discussion about the impact of trolling and other forms of harmful abuse

It comes after a Government-commissioned review last year recommended a ban on smoking outside any premises that sell food and drink to ensure hospitality is smoke-free

A furious Labour MP tore into top education officials who refused to reveal the number of schools that still need checking for dodgy concrete that could be at risk of collapsing

The Tories will be forced to put forward a 'caretaker' Tory candidate after Mr Pincher was forced to resign as he lost his appeal against a suspension for drunkenly groping two men

Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, a former soldier accused of terrorism, went missing in his cook's uniform from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday after clinging to a delivery van

Damp and mould is associated with a number of health conditions including mental and social wellbeing, allergies, asthma and the effects of toxins from mould and fungal infections

The Lib Dems said 'local residents deserve better than this', adding that the Conservatives should know better than to put forward a known fly-tipper forward as a candidate