Politics

I was gobsmacked when a pal told me she was made to pay to view a rental flat. When I asked her why she didn’t tell the estate agent where to go, she shrugged: 'That’s just how it is now'

It comes after Scott Benton was stripped of the Tory whip on Wednesday evening after a newspaper sting alleged he was prepared to leak policy documents to a bogus investment fund and ask parliamentary questions on its behalf

The Black Equity Organisation has sent legal papers to the Home Secretary on the fifth anniversary of the horrendous failings - which saw British citizens deported and denied access to healthcare - coming to light

Latest figures from the NHS show that children are three times more likely than adults to be facing waiting times of over a year for community treatments for things like speech therapy

Government ethics advisor Sir Laurie Magnus said he was unable to find any "clear evidence" that former chief whip Mark Spencer had made negative remarks about Nusrat Ghani's Muslim faith

Cabinet Minister Michael Gove warned town halls against abandoning machines where drivers can pay by cash or card as operators switch to smartphone apps

The DWP study has been kept under wraps since it was completed in 2020 but it was finally published on Thursday after the Information Commissioner's Office ordered its release

The Labour leader hit out at Tory plans to place 2,000 migrants at RAF Scampton - once home to the famous 617 Squadron and the Red Arrows

The Labour leader hit out after Tory MP Scott Benton was caught on camera offering to make representations on behalf of people he believed to be gambling investors

The Child Poverty Action Group said the controversial cap has played a big role in rising child poverty - but do you think the policy should be scrapped?

Figures quietly slipped out while MPs are away from Westminster lay bare the extent of the decade-long killing programme aimed at curbing bovine tuberculosis

The Home Secretary beat backbencher Flick Drummond in the race to be selected as the candidate for the new seat In Hampshire created by constituency boundary changes

'We must adapt and use every tool at our disposal to keep people safe... The new national Emergency Alerts system is one way we can do this', says Chief Fire Officer Alex Woodman

MPs found that 360,000 people were hit by hold-ups of more than 10 weeks when applying for travel documents in 2022, with holidaymakers left out of pocket and people struggling to get to family emergencies

The new UK-wide Emergency Alert system will be tested on Sunday, April 23, with Brits due to receive trial messages to warn of danger to life nearby

Six years after the controversial policy - one of ex-Chancellor George Osborne's austerity measures - was first rolled out, a Child Poverty Action Group survey shows families struggling to pay food and energy

The Tories are putting up barriers around the ballot box. This is an unnecessary requirement when the scale of electoral fraud is so minimal

As the new tax year starts today, the Shadow Chancellor accuses the Conservatives of raiding people’s wage to pay for their mistakes during their 13 years in power

New rules mean people in England must show identification for the first time to vote in May’s local elections, but the Tories have been accused of rigging the rules

Blackpool South MP Scott Benton was secretly filmed by reporters boasting of his access to ministers in a meeting with fake gambling investors

Derek Bullock was re-selected by the Conservatives to stand for a seat on Bolton Council at local elections next month despite previously being suspended by the party

Labour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the Government is paying pricey consultants to 'do their job for them' after agreeing a £3.9 million contract for 'leadership services' to end small boat crossings

The Home Office has confirmed its plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm vessel docked at Portland Port in Dorset - but Tory MP Richard Drax says he is considering a legal challenge

Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg used the closing preference of a two-day summit at coalition headquarters to highlight broken spending pledges by NATO members

Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the SNP's finances, shortly after Ms Sturgeon stepped down as Scotland's First Minister