Politics

The Shadow Climate Change and Net-Zero Secretary told the Mirror Labour was 'very interested' in the idea - adding: "We will say more about it"

After nearly nine years in power, Nicola Sturgeon has officially tendered her resignation as First Minister of Scotland in a letter to King Charles.

The Government announced today it is to give Afghan refugees, who fled to the UK following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021,It has sparked concerns some - including children - could be left homeless.

The call comes as Shadow Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband prepares to set out Labour's green energy plan in response to Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act

It comes as Rishi Sunak fights off rebels from his own party on his controversial Illegal Immigration Bill. MPs debated the details of the bill, which seeks to introduce powers to remove people who have entered the UK illegally

The Prime Minister rejected calls to tighten the rules on MP second jobs after ex-ministers Kwasi Kwarteng and Matt Hancock were filmed offering to advise a fake South Korean company for up to £10,000-a-day

Humza Yousaf narrowly won the SNP leadership contest with 52% of votes. Tomorrow he will officially be appointed as Scotland's First Minister, becoming the first British Asian and Muslim to hold the post

The announcement follows a divisive five-week campaign to replace the Scottish First Minister Ms Sturgeon who announced her shock resignation in February

Sleazy Tories only want second jobs because they're about to lose the first, says Fleet Street Fox. It's time to clean the House of Commons

The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary appeared alongside police officers in Essex before Mr Sunak set out his 'zero tolerance' approach to anti-social behaviour.

The party leader will stop his predecessor from representing the party at the next ballot, under plans going before Labour's ruling National Executive Committee tomorrow

The fate of the three candidates - Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan - will be revealed at around 2pm on Monday at the BT Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh.

Campaign group Britain Remade said cutting planning bureaucracy would accelerate green energy projects, “unlock billions in investment and create tens of thousands of jobs in Britain’s former industrial heartlands in the North and the Midlands”.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to open new safe routes, but has failed to give details or a timeframe for when it will happen - a new poll shows the public wants ministers to take action

With nearly one third of the young people Electoral Commission believes are adrift less likely to choose Tory, Kevin Maguire argues more should be done to let everyone get the chance to vote

Ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Tory grandee Graham Brady have been exposed by Mirror engaging in "sleazy activity"

Labour MPs Angela Rayner and Thangam Debbonaire, among those furious with more Tory sleaze, have shared their disgust after Kwasi Kwarteng told fake foreign businessman he could arrange meetings with Boris Johnson

Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, was duped by campaign group Led By Donkeys into holding a video call about a job as a board member for a fake South Korean firm

In an interview with The Mirror, the Shadow Education Secretary accused Jeremy Hunt of "pouring petrol on a fire that is already raging". Earlier this month he announced plans to offer more free hours - without enough cash to prop up the struggling system

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, who grew up in a council house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said her mum Clare didn't go back to work full time until she started school because no childcare was available.

Nicola Sturgeon, once described by London Right-Wing media as "the most dangerous woman in Britain", had ample qualities and strengths, writes political columnist Paul Routledge

Employees are increasingly being treated 'like robots' with bosses watching them through their laptop cameras or timing them when they go to the toilet, a shocking report exposes

New rules for taking part in elections in England mean voters must show identification when they go to their polling station - beginning with the May local elections

The Tory ex-chancellor who crashed the economy with his disastrous mini-Budget was secretly filmed by campaign group Led By Donkeys offering to work on the side for £10,000 a day

The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, who has admitted to taking the class A drug cocaine, was challenged on his own drug use after the announcement. He could not confirm what drugs class laughing gas would be categorised as