Politics

Michaela Thomas, 30, who works at Mayfield School in Redbridge, east London, said her 11-year-old daughter no longer qualifies for free lunches after she increased the length of her working day last September

Labour officials saw off attempts to get the party to scrap the Tory two-child benefit cap, along with calls to widen free school meals provision, as the leadership keeps a tight grip on spending plans

Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said today that four children were among those wounded in the early-morning blasts, which severely damaged the historic Transfiguration Cathedral, in Odesa, Ukraine

Unilever and other Western companies have come under pressure to pull out of Russia since it invaded Ukraine - but now said it will allow its staff to be conscripted

Crossbencher Lord Woolley of Woodford, who is the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, said he has been asked by other peers to help them with the photocopier

Sara Britcliffe, who was the youngest Conservative MP when she was elected in 2019 at just 24, revealed she was left stranded in an airport at just five years old when her mum was arrested

The latest polling reveals Keir Starmer's party would rake in 42% of the vote if a general election was held tomorrow, with the Conservatives having fallen three points to just 25%

The Housing Secretary will tomorrow set out plans to make it easier for property developers to convert office blocks and shops into homes without applying for planning permission

Home Secretary Suella Braverman went to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in March to promote her plan to deport refugees there - before her plans were ruled 'unlawful' last month

Speaking at the party’s National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must “learn the lessons” from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge

After our 2019 defeat, Labour was a shipwreck - but Keir has made the party seaworthy again, writes Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting

Shotley Bridge Hospital, in a Tory seat and part of the nearby County Durham and Darlington NHS trust, will have a newbuild by 2028 - but hospitals in Labour have been neglected

Bereaved relatives of victims will deliver a letter to Number 10 on Monday ahead of Mr Sunak’s evidence to demand action on setting up a body to administer full compensation

The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace both made apologies in the House of Commons for the shameful treatment of troops under the military gay ban

Despite claiming to understand the “challenges” families are facing with skyrocketing mortgage payments, this newspaper can reveal he does not have a mortgage on any of his multi-million pound UK properties

David Cameron's infamous warning has become a widely mocked harbinger of Britain descending into the banter timeline. And a new poll shows just 28% of voters believe the former PM was right in his prediction

Keir Starmer said: "A long standing Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Ann was a leading figure in the Labour Party, dedicating her life to our movement."

Parish councillors are calling for archaeologists to excavate land around Boris Johnson's Oxfordshire mansion – as its five-acre grounds are believed to have been the site of a 12th-century siege castle

This week's by-election results show there's no guarantee Labour would win a general election - so Keir Starmer needs to up his game

The Labour leader joked that Tory veterans minister Johnny Mercer will soon be 'history' after he mocked 25-year-old Keir Mather for being young as he won Selby and Ainsty by-election

The disgraced ex-PM previously had not been able to provide all his messages as he had forgotten the passcode to his old mobile phone

Keir Starmer said Labour's stunning by-election turnaround in Selby and Ainsty was a 'cry for change', as the Lib Dems seized Somerton and Frome but under-pressure Rishi Sunak narrowly scraped a win in Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Describing her daughter's killers as a 'coward' Cheryl Korbel said she wanted jailed Thomas Cashman to 'listen to the pain that he's caused, the pain that we went through and the pain we are still going through'

Labour has made history by sweeping victory in Selby and Ainsty in a record breaking by-election result, but do YOU think the opposition party will win the next general election?

Shamed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's legal costs were met by the public purse during the Commons Privileges Committee probe, which delivered a damning verdict on his Partygate denials