Politics

Blackpool MP Scott Benton is one of 25 MPs the Sunday People revealed had accepted a combined £147,000 in cash from IX Wireless - a Lancashire-based broadband firm

Suella Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, who won an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening

Michael Gove and Steve Barclay set out five areas of concern ahead of a review of rules to protect renters

The crackdown on single-use plastics will also cover plates, takeaway containers and balloon sticks - as it is estimated 2.7billion items of single-use cutlery are used in England every year

Kim Leadbeater - who represents the same seat her sister held until her death - called for more to be done to protect politicians, who, she said, face a “shopping list” of threats, abuse, and attacks

The GMB union told the Prime Minister that emergency workers felt 'utterly betrayed' by the Tory attempts to paint them as uncaring and to pile blame onto staff for crisis scenes in the NHS

The Gender Recognition Reform Bill was passed at Holyrood in an extremely important victory for LGBTQ+ rights and the decision needs to be respected by Rishi Sunak, writes Nancy Kelley, Chief Executive, of Stonewall

Brian Reade says it's high time to follow Labour's plan and remove the charity status of our elite private schools, despite opponents calling it a "tax on aspiration"

More than three million people were left in the cold and dark last year after running out of credit on their meter according to the latest grim figures from Citizen's Advice

Trades Union Congress general secretary Paul Nowak accused ministers of 'going back to the 1980s' by confronting unions rather than trying to resolve the disputes with public sector workers including nurses

Paul Nowak, the new head of the Trades Union Congress, called on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to come out of hiding and provide extra funding so nurses and ambulance workers can get a proper pay rise

The gas-guzzling 888-mile round trip on a luxury RAF Falcon 900 LX would have released around 4.2 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere

It comes amid strained relations over the issue of Scottish independence and threats by the UK Government to block landmark reforms for transgender people at Holyrood last month

The Labour leader called on Rishi Sunak to resolve the issues over Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading arrangements - and resist 'siren voices' such as Boris Johnson who don't want to compromise

The former Prime Minister declared the massive donation to his office from Brexiteer crypto investor Christopher Harborne in the latest register of MPs' interests

A Tory minister denied that the NHS was in a crisis during a heated discussion on BBC Question Time last night, after members of the panel and audience urged the government to take action

Paul Routledge gets a frontline view of how hard our NHS staff work after being rushed into Leeds General Infirmary, and says Rishi Sunak needs to stop his PR photo-ops and get real himself

The latest survey, by People Polling for GB News, reveals the scale of the challenge facing Rishi Sunak if he is to turn around the Conservatives' fortunes before the next election

Parliament's head of security revealed how officials worked to block certain individuals from attending the sombre vigil beside the Queen's coffin in Parliament's Westminster Hall

Labour analysis found households are on the hook for £2,600 more in power bills than they paid under the 13 years Labour were in charge from 1997 to 2010

Labour described the NHS as being in “the biggest crisis in its history”, as patient care worsens and staff stage waves of strikes over pay and working conditions

RMT chief Mick Lynch said he was “working jointly towards a revised offer” with the Rail Delivery Group after four hours of talks - and eight months of on-and-off strikes

Teaching unions have been balloting their members of the Government's pay offer, which the IFS said would amount to a real terms pay cut of 5% for most teachers due to high levels of inflation

Atos and Capita have had their lucrative PIP assessment contracts extended for the fourth time without going out to competition - despite a litany of complaints

The GMB union will meet ambulance representatives to discuss further industrial action after talks with Health Secretary Steve Barclay failed to break the deadlock