Politics

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will chair the meeting, expected to include intelligence service and police chiefs amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict

Documents released alongside the King's Speech reveal the Government is considering a new duty on vape sales and a ban on disposable devices alongside a new cigarette ban

The exchange of pleasantries between the PM and Labour leader came ahead of the monarch's address to Parliament setting out the Government's agenda ahead of the next general election

Rishi Sunak has drawn up a list of 20 planned new laws, but the blueprint announced in the King's Speech doesn't include promised bans on trophy hunting and conversion therapy

King Charles today read out the Government's plans as Rishi Sunak desperately tries to cling to power, with a cigarette sale ban and a shake-up of renting rules among measures announced

King Charles outlined the government's proposed laws at the State Opening of Parliament today, which highlighted plans to ban smoking and grant judges extra powers

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi accused her party of having long 'failed' to respond to and support victims following claims that rape allegations against an MP were covered up

Black Rod is actually a person who performs an important function in Parliament and will be seen in today's ceremony as the Government's plans are announced in the King's Speech

Minimum service levels, restricting rights to strike, will be introduced for ambulance, rail and Border Force staff, but unions have claimed they are 'unworkable'

Plans to force criminals to attend sentencing hearings and changes to leasehold rules will be announced as the King reads out the laws Rishi Sunak wants to pass before the election

The Home Secretary's latest divisive statement is that sleeping rough is a "lifestyle choice"

Dr Ben Warner, who scrawled the word in a February 2020 meeting with scientists, said ministers should have drawn up lockdown plans as soon as China and Italy did so

Tory peer Baroness Mone has finally admitted to her role in a £200m government PPE deal alongside her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman after the Mirror exposed their involvement with firm PPE Medpro

Last autumn there were an average of 3,069 people sleeping rough in England - up from 1,768 in 2010, as pressure piles on Rishi Sunak to distance himself from the Home Secretary

The shamed former Prime Minister is claimed to have made the remark in a meeting in January 2021, when he demanded restrictions were fully lifted by September

With yet another controversial soundbite to add to an ever-growing list of high-profile clangers, home secretary Suella Braverman's political career often seems to be unravelling day by day. Now, we ask, is she out of touch?

The former Culture Secretary has penned tens of thousands of words about how her hero Prime Minister was ousted from No10 - and some of them are very weird indeed

The plant at Scunthorpe is the latest to come under the shadow of redundancies as the sector aims to slash carbon emissions by closing coal-fired blast furnaces

The Conservative Party vice-chairman issued an apology to Dr Tom Dolphin after sharing a news story about the medic last month - and has now paid £1,870 to the British Medical Association's strike fund

Former Conservative Party chairman Sir Jake Berry wrote to the police over fears the party was covering up a rape allegation against a sitting MP, according to Nadine Dorries' book

The King's Speech will include plans to issue more North Sea oil and gas licences, but Labour has said it would be better to focus investment on nuclear and renewable power

Keir Starmer continues to face down demands to back calls for a cessation of the violence in the Strip, as Israel retaliates for the October 7 attacks waged by Hamas

The TUC claimed up to 3.5million people are at risk of being left worse off if ministers 'meddle' with rules on holiday pay in a way that punishes those who do overtime

Ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, the Resolution Foundation said Whitehall departments are braced for cuts on the scale of those unleashed by George Osborne

Ahead of the King’s Speech, Labour warned the Conservatives have given up on tackling the country’s problems as it emerged 134 hours of parliamentary time went unused