Politics

Two reports by the Electoral Commission and theLocal Government Information Unit warn of the added pressure on polling station staff because of voter identification rules

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

GMB General Secretary Gary Smith said Keir Starmer had 'got it wrong' with a pledge to ban new North Sea oil and gas licences but Labour could level up the country after Tory failings

GMB General Secretary Gary Smith said the state of public buildings was 'a metaphor for what this government, for what the Tories have done for this country'

Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh urged Rail Minister Huw Merriman to 'come clean' after she took apart his claims about the closure of rail ticket offices

In 2023, 427 bank branches have closed, with 220 scheduled later this year - and this trend being allowed to continue would have stark consequences, writes Gary Smith

Commuters are set to be hammered by the highest annual increase since 1996, analysis showed, after average wage figures were released this morning

Ministers are understood to be scrambling to work out ways to pay less after bonuses paid to NHS staff and civil servants drove average wage increases up to 8.5%

Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry would be responsible for providing the Prime Minister with crunch legal advice if Labour wins the next election, due by January 2025

Labour's Angela Rayner made a 'cast iron commitment' to an Employment Rights Bill and to repealing anti-union legislation within the first 100 days in Government

Experts warn high interest rates are having a chilling effect on the jobs market after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the unemployment rate has risen to 4.3%

Ministers have been accused of letting perpetrators get away with "environmental vandalism on an industrial scale" following a report by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP)

Average pay - including bonuses - went up by 8.5% between May and June, new data shows. This means the state pension is likely to go up by at least the same amount

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

In her first speech as Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Angela Rayner will warn that 'false promises' and 'sound bites' from the Tories have left the British public feeling 'levelled down'

Delays have hit the production of the nuclear test medal, with the first ones produced only two weeks ago. Now ministers have admitted not all of the 1,700 who have applied may get them in time

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

Unions backed a motion urging 'non-compliance and non cooperation' with the Tory Strikes Act, creating a policy of defiance against the legislation passed in July

Adam Cruise, the acting chief executive of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, spoke out as peers prepare to debate plans to stop hunters bringing their "prizes" back to Britain

Mirror columnist Anna Morell has strong feelings about Disabled people being told to 'look for employment' and is calling on the government to do more for people with health issues

Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said Labour mustn't be 'too timid to talk of hope, too Conservative to make change' in a fiery speech to the Trades Union Congress

The former Prime Minister made a rare intervention in Parliament during an emergency debate on the alleged national security scandal gripping Westminster

Jonathan Gullis, a leading member of the New Conservatives faction, outlined a list of demands after penning a report warning the UK is 'lagging behind' on vocational skills

Asked by the Mirror if the 1991 legislation was 'fit for purpose', the Prime Minister's spokesman instead said the Government had asked for new advice on measures it could take