Politics

London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned scrapping the HS2 link to Euston station would mean some journeys on “high speed” services would take longer to get to the centre of the Capital than regular trains

If Rishi Sunak really wanted to lift the burden on low-income families, costs could be paid out of general taxation - but that would mean no election sweeteners next year

Keir Mudie says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week had the air of a man who knows the game is up - and the fact he's backing down on net-zero promises is 'quite something'

On the eve of the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth, Health Spokesperson Daisy Cooper revealed public health grants had been slashed by a fifth since 2015

Labour's Lucy Powell has demanded answers from Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt over the decision to announce the climate policy bonfire while MPs were on recess

It comes after a damning report found 19 incidents of the mistreatment of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre in 2017

Former PMs are allowed to claim up to £115,000 from the public purse for “administrative costs” arising from their position

The collection of paintings, antiques and heritage items is mainly held in Number 10 and 70 Whitehall, the main Cabinet Office building - but isn’t on display for the general public.

Smoking cigarettes is one of the biggest causes of death in the UK, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly plotting a controversial ban on buying cigarettes for the next generation

It's one year since Kwasi Kwarteng stood up in the Commons and unleashed an economic wrecking ball that's still causing misery for millions - we look at what happened

The Tories promised to increase participation in school sport - then they imposed brutal austerity that led to the loss of nearly 1,000 council sports fields

Rishi Sunak is in talks about introducing a new law similar to that brought in in New Zealand which would effectively make cigarettes unobtainable for the next generation

Labour's Bridget Phillipson vowed to get more girls doing sport as she revealed she was stopped from playing football as a kid - and has taken up hockey as break from her MP life

Lisa Cameron is facing a challenge to remain the SNP’s candidate in East Kilbride after she criticised how the party handled a complaint against former chief whip Patrick Grady

On the eve of the Liberal Democrat conference, Sir Ed told The Mirror the policy would help people in England struggling with 'really high costs' of social care

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

A-level qualifications will be scrapped and replaced with a new system called the Advanced British Standard (ABS) under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's proposed plans

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

More than 100 survivors and families have backed a new lawsuit against the MoD over missing medical records

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'

Charles deplored Russia’s 'horrifying' invasion of Ukraine, amid fears that if Donald Trump wins the presidential election next year he will pull the plug on US military support

I support the doctors but ordinary people are affected by strike paralysis, unlike Tory ministers who go private, says Paul Routledge

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

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned that Britain has been 'missing on the world stage' as he spoke to the Mirror in Washington DC where he will meet White House officials