Politics

Tony Blair's former spin chief said children should be given a political education at a young age - and said state school pupils needed to learn to 'fight their corner' against their wealthier peers

Voters were left in tears after seeing people turned away at polling stations for not having the correct ID as rules were enforced for the first time at this month's local elections in England

The Bank of England has hiked interest rates repeatedly to tackle inflation - in a hit to mortgage payers - and experts have warned they could raise them higher than the current 4.5% next month

'Sold on Conservative's lies, it was so obviously going to be a disaster ...' you have your say about the UK's controversial withdrawal from the EU

Tory minister Laura Trott tried to heap blame onto Labour when grilled on Question Time about her own Government's broken promises on slashing net migration figures

On the final day of Parliament before recess - dubbed ‘Take Out the Trash Day’ - the Government rushed out a flurry of announcements. Here's what you might have missed...

The latest figures show the Conservatives have lost control of the immigration system - and despite Tory promises to cut the number coming here, net migration has reached a record high

Labour’s blast came as official figures showed 606,000 more people came to the UK than left last year, despite Conservative pledges to slash numbers

Columnist Paul Routledge takes us to times past with his postcard home from a Cumbrian holiday, with a trip to the Eden Valley that felt "a bit like a homecoming"

Labour accused the Conservatives of using money from the public purse to 'paper over the cracks of their 13 years of economic failure with meaningless photo opportunities'

Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted that some of the original facilities will not be completed by the end of the decade as focus is shifting to five hospitals deemed 'not safe to operate beyond 2030'

Parliament is set to become a ghost town as MPs leave the the House of Commons to take a week-long break today. But how much annual leave do they get?

The Office for National Statistics today revealed UK net migration for 2022 hit 606,000 - a new record - prompting calls for a shake-up of the system. Here, we try to explain what's going on

The Tories' 2019 election manifesto promised to introduce new laws on animal welfare, including banning exports of livestock for slaughter and tackling puppy smuggling

Despite FOUR YEARS of promises made by the government to close the gap, the inequality across the UK still very much exists

13 years after promising to get net migration down to "the tens of thousands", it's the highest ever recorded., says Fleet Street Fox. This is government by goon

The fearsome 1,500mph ground attack aircraft carried out the mission as part of Operation Shader, the ongoing battle against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria

The Prime Minister, who has two daughters, Krishna, 12, and Anoushka, 10, said that the Government was looking at cracking down on the vaping industry amid fears children are getting hooked on colourful nicotine-filled products like Elf Bars

Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal a surge in net migration - the difference between the number of people moving to the UK and the number leaving the country - in the year to December

The former Brexit Party leader pulled candidates from the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the 2017 election to give the Tories a clear run to power - but he now regrets the move

Only 48.1% of young children who qualified for free school meals were assessed as having a ‘good level of development’ in England last year, compared to 68.8% of more affluent kids

Despairing voters think the UK is a country in decline according to a grim survey to mark the launch of left-leaning think tank, The New Britain Project

If the Covid inquiry cannot establish the facts lessons cannot be learned - and to cap it all, Mr Johnson is relying on taxpayer-funded lawyers

Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin dropped a very big hint that no new cuts to soldier numbers would be included in the Defence Command Paper

Outgoing alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - and former Norwegian Prime Minister - is preparing to host the organisation's annual leaders' summit in Lithuania this summer