Politics

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said she was not planning to review the 32-year-old legislation, despite huge criticism of the 1991 Act from experts and animal charities

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey told MPs experts had got forecasts of storms from the West "down to a fine art" - but Babet blew in from a different direction

The Scottish Labour leader said his party should be 'brave' and act to reform the upper chamber when it has 'maximum political capital' in the early years of winning power

A new report by charity Unseen says hundreds carers have been forced to work long hours to pay off illegal debts by unscrupulous employers with the Government failing to act

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that 50 of an estimated 400 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be emptied by January, but was challenged over whether they'd be in marginal seats

More than 1 million children are living in "horrifying levels of destitution", with many struggling to get food and stay warm. Let us know what you think should be done in our poll

Liz Truss's policy to get rid of a cap on multimillion-pound payouts for bankers was one of the only policies to survive her disastrous mini-budget that sent economy into meltdown

The brutal polling shows Rishi Sunak's personal ratings have also taken a tumble a year after he was picked by Tory MPs to replace 49-day PM Liz Truss as party leader

The Living Wage Foundation today releases its annual rates - and the inflation-busting hike will help boost the budgets of hundreds of thousands struggling in the cost of living crisis

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said the number of children in extreme poverty has almost tripled to more than one million with many struggling to get the food they need

Tory MP Nick Fletcher, who rents out six houses and four flats in South Yorkshire, claimed that giving tenants extra rights would lead to landlords selling up

James Cleverly racked up a bill of almost a million pounds by using private jets for two overseas trips in his job as Foreign Secretary earlier this year

The PM revealed the findings of a British intelligence investigation into the deadly missile strike on Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, which found it had not been launched from within Israel

The Labour leader spoke to the Mirror after visiting the UK's biggest steelworks, Tata's plant at Port Talbot, South Wales, where 3,000 posts are under threat

With a government announcement that every household in England will get a food waste bin, Fleet Street Fox argues humanity is doomed if it doesn't stop throwing away grub

The Tory Party Chairman received the taxpayer-funded payout when he was sacked as a business minister in September 2022, before returning to Government four weeks later

The Commons Transport Committee said ministers must rethink plans to close ticket offices at 974 railway stations across England that will hit the disabled and elderly

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has agreed to delay ban in a bid to appease Tory rebels threatening to vote against the Renters Reform Bill as they are landlords themselves

February 24 has been earmarked as the date when a plane carrying asylum seekers who have reached the UK will depart for the Rwandan capital Kigali, it has emerged

A study by the TUC found BME women aged in their 30s were hardest hit as it demanded the Government introduce flexible childcare and fix the staffing crisis in social care

Kevin Maguire says Keir Starmer is aware the Labour Party must gain a mammoth 125 seats to secure a basic majority of one in Parliament - and knows he should not be complacent

Ex-Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tory Party chairman Greg Hands got thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in payouts when they lost their jobs as ministers

The leader of the sector's biggest trade union has raised fears for its future following the controversial agreement over the plant, which will lead to 3,000 job cuts

Pranksters released a tape of them calling the Prime Minister’s personal mobile and getting through to his answerphone message. Downing Street refused to comment on the gaffe

Israel's former PM Naftali Bennett warned that terrorists will target the West with a fresh wave of atrocities saying: 'If you think it's not going to hit London you're mistaken'