Politics

Tories have long hated trade unions but their anti-strike laws are an attempt to browbeat workers into subservience and they have now been reported to a UN rights watchdog

A gang of right-wing MPs known as the New Conservatives have demanded Rishi Sunak targets 'low-achieving' students and accused universities of 'exploiting' the dreams of young people

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership think tank is publishing its demands to political parties, as the annual Great Northern Summit takes place today in Bradford

The Tories are backing a controversial plan put forward by train bosses to close ticket counters at 974 railway stations across England - which has sparked a major backlash

The Prime Minister declined to say whether the key policy affecting millions of pensioners would be included in the Conservative Party’s manifesto at the next election

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called an attack on an 11-year-old girl by an American XL Bully as "appalling" and has revealed she has commissioned urgent advice on banning the breed

The TUC congress in Liverpool will see bold arguments put forward for solving Britain's economic problems - including a host of progressive tax policies, writes Kevin Maguire

Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham has identified five ways Labour can be bolder in their offering to working people if they win power

Thousands of kids had their return to class disrupted after the Government ordered dozens of schools to shut or partially close over safety fears from collapse-prone concrete

Dame Vera Baird quit as Victims Commissioner nearly a year ago as she 'no longer believed that Conservative ministers had the interests of victims at heart' but since then 'the situation has got worse'

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned that “under the Tories, too many criminals are getting off' and victims are being left facing lengthy waits for justice

TUC leader Paul Nowak said the crackdown was a product of a 'desperate Conservative Government spoiling for a fight with unions to distract from their dire economic record'

In a harrowing insight into the pressures MPs face, former international development secretary Rory Stewart said he was aware of cases where politicians had nearly died by suicide

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said around 40 prisoners were taken out of the Category B prison as a probe into how terror suspect Daniel Khalife got away is carried out

Former PM Liz Truss is penning a loftily-titled book called Ten Years To Save the West, in which she's expected to lash out at the 'global left' and the 'Greta Thunbergs of this world'

A new report by the Commons Defence Committee warned the fleet was “alarmingly” low in number, and would struggle to defend the UK in an “all-out war”.

More than six million who receive Universal Credit will be left worse off if Rishi Sunak decides not to raise benefits in line with inflation in the Autumn Statement

Rishi Sunak told reporters: "One of the people at the palace said to me, ‘you are the first Chancellor that's come here without your big red folder’"

The Prime Minister met her for a drink on Friday evening ahead of a gathering of world leaders at the G20 in New Delhi. The PM revealed they had agreed to team up to convince European nations to take a harder line on illegal migration

Birmingham City Council, despite going effectively bankrupt last week, paid chief Deborah Cadman a basic £244,820 in 2022/23 and other skint authorities are shelling out

Chronic understaffing by the Tories means that our prisons are at risk of failing in their primary purpose of keeping prisoners secure and the public safe

Analysis by the Scotch Whisky Association found whisky drinkers would pay £200 more a year in tax compared to people who order pints of cider

Mr Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy handed pots of cash to Claremont McKenna College, the liberal arts college in Los Angeles where Mrs Murthy studied.

Calls grow for an nationwide audit of social housing as the crisis grows - as ministers scramble to get a grip of how many government buildings contain RAAC

As part of the “biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation”, Deputy Leader Angela Rayner is set announce outdated regulations would be updated to cover new, underhanded tactics from rogue bosses