Politics

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner is set to ban police officers in his force from attending thousands of calls they get every year to deal with mental health incidents

The row comes after the Cabinet Office handed extracts from Boris Johnson's prime ministerial diaries which showed potential lockdown breaches to the police without telling him

Researchers have calculated how much cash could be injected into the Treasury if a wealth tax was applied to the richest people in the country

Sharon Hodgson, an MP in North East England, recalls the stigma of queueing for free dinners. But this is about more than ending any stigma for the one-in-five who receive them

Kevin Maguire writes that Jeremy Hunt is relaxed about plunging Britain into recession - no wonder Labour and Keir Starmer are enjoying healthy double-digit poll leads

The Mirror can reveal two months after applications opened in March, just 13% of eligible families had applied. Now, there are just days left to apply - or households risk losing out on support

Sharon Hodgson, who was the Labour leader’s Commons aide until only a few months ago, threw her weight behind the Mirror’s campaign for universal free school meals in primary schools

Moscow's man in London repeatedly clashed with BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg as she grilled him about his country's invasion of Ukraine

He spearheaded a buyout of the Cynon Valley pit and the 239 staff marched back to work in January 1995 in a triumph for staff at the South Wales coal pit

Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was 'scandalous', adding that MPs should have to pay their fines 'like the rest of us'

The British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee co-chair Vivek Trivedi challenged the Tory minister after he suggested doctors were being unreasonable

No10 is planning to make a deal with supermarkets as it becomes increasingly worried the cost-of-living crisis gripping Britain could derail the Tories’ slim hopes of winning the next general election

Dubai-based John Desmond Hanafin is accused of facilitating movement of Russian cash into the UAE via Huriya, which funds 50 mentoring scholarships for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

The Mayor of London said that after suffering a suspected heart attack on stage, he is more determined than ever to act on the environment – not least because of his kids

For a long time, Labour’s strategy has been to sit back and watch it happen. I’m not a fan of this but it is increasingly hard to argue with

Rachael Bletchly says sitting through a public speed awareness course may have made Home Secretary Suella Braverman a more thoughtful politician as well as a safer drive

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary blamed record NHS waiting times and out of date benefit rules for trapping people out of work

After a Sunday Mirror campaign, ministers ordered a review of the hardship suffered by veterans during and after their service as a result of the cruel ban

The £16.99 flip-flops, bearing Keir Starmer's face, are significantly cheaper than the £95 designer sliders favoured by Rishi Sunak

Johnson was approached by Sky News at Washington's Dulles Airport where he went on to slam Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, while suggesting they handed diary accounts to police "without any attempt to understand what these things actually mean or refer to"

If people thought Jeremy Hunt had some sympathy for their plight they should think again

Columnist Brian Reade reflects on the last 13 years of Tory rule, and says that while there were shameful decisions made by the Labour party pre-2010, nothing compares to this cabinet with no talent

As this week marks one year since railway workers in the RMT voted to begin their biggest walkouts in almost 30 years, trade union leaders demanded the PM to stop 'messing around' and end the disruption

Eighty per cent of disabilities are invisible. And people keep them that way, invisible, because of fear that they will be treated differently, or abused

Former Children’s Minister Edward Timpson, whose own family fostered over 90 children, joined calls for people to consider fostering a child as he said carers have 'never been more needed'