Politics

Rishi Sunak and Dutch PM Mark Rutte have agreed to build an "international coalition" to secure F-16 warplanes for Kyiv as it tries to recapture territory from Russia

The Royal United Services Institute think tank warned the PM will have to find billions of pounds to pay for his pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP

Cheaper tickets due to end next month will now remain until almost the end of 2024 after transport ministers got the Treasury to agree to a £500million package of funding to help protect bus services

Tycoon Javad Marandi donated over half a million pounds to the Tories between 2019 and 2020 while Boris Johnson was leader, Electoral Commission records show

Writing in the Mirror, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham reveals plan to encourage more youngsters to study subjects such as engineering and computer science

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham wants students to pick GCSE subjects that will help them to get good jobs in the local economy without the need for university

The Labour leader will attempt to capitalise on Tory failures over the housing crisis after Rishi Sunak bowed to pressure from his own MPs to scrap house-building targets last year

The former Prime Minister will become the first ex-UK premier to visit the breakaway island for 27 years, following in the footsteps of idol, Margaret Thatcher

Take former Conservative Minister and MP Ann Widdecombe, who is presumably not personally short of money

The Shadow Health Secretary added he was lucky he survived his own scare after kidney cancer was picked up by chance, aged 38

The ex-minister's condescending answer to being told the price of cheese sandwiches has risen by up to 101% was for people to stop making them

Former chief Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost will tell an audience of right wingers at the National Conservatism Conference that plenty have 'accumulated unearned wealth' under the Conservatives, but many are 'locked out'

The PM is set to meet the head of the European Court of Human Rights, Siofra O'Leary in a desperate bid to get the deportation flights - branded a "gimmick" by critics - in the air

Only 73% of first-class mail gets there the next day – but my parcel took 18 days to cross London, says Polly Hudson

Health chiefs from countries which have given ill people control over how they die shared a range of experiences in a debate on a potential change to the law in the UK

To do that we need funded mental health services, instead of an NHS that is facing cuts of billions and being carved up and sold off to their Conservative pals

Tory MP Flick Drummond is pushing for a legal duty on local authorities to keep a record of all youngsters being home-schooled amid fears kids are unsafe or losing out on their education

Kaleb Cooper, who became a sensation after appearing on the Amazon Prime show, attended a crunch No10 summit with supermarket bosses, farmers' leaders and industry executives

Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey revealed his plans to sign a new defence concord with Berlin within weeks if Labour gets into power

The former UKIP chief and arch Brexiteer failed to rule out a return to frontline politics as he issued a scathing assessment of the Government's handling of EU withdrawal

Passengers are getting increasingly worried about services being cut with many anxious about how they will get to work if local routes are cut, the Confederation of Passenger Transport said

We want to see many solutions offered, such as supermarkets guaranteeing cheaper own-brand products in every shop

Following the well-publicised gaffe by journalist Dawn Neesom on the Jeremy Vine show, Darren Lewis voices his opinion on the importance of taking the time to learn how to say somebody's name correctly

Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, Katharine Birbalsingh warned her audience that they will "lose our country" if they don't stand up to "extreme leftist views" which she claims dominates the education system

In a major speech on the housing crisis, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan called on the Tory Government to give him powers to impose a rent freeze in the capital