Politics

Serving ministers Tom Tugendhat and Anne-Marie Trevelyan posted a plea for more defence spending on LinkedIn for some reason - and didn't clear it with No10 first

Tory Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told headteachers she would 'probably have punched' rude Ofsted inspectors if she was a teacher in her latest outspoken remarks

The UK will join allies in establishing a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly into Gaza after Joe Biden announced the American military will build a temporary port

Outspoken Tory Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was immediately criticised for 'making light of violence in schools' after her remarks about Ofsted inspectors

As Theresa May bails out, it's clear Rishi Sunak can't wait any longer to call an election, argues Fleet Street Fox

Treasury Minister Gareth Johnson botched the numbers when challenged by Sky News' Anna Jones on whether Conservatives are quitting because they fear electoral wipeout

Nervy Conservatives MPs are turning their minds to the possibility of a Labour victory - and with several 2019 MPs deciding to quit before the next general election

The former Prime Minister said she will not be re-standing in Maidenhead, which she has represented for 27 years, as she joins an exodus of Tory MPs ahead of the election

John Camp, of the Association of School and College Leaders, warns a breakdown of the 'unwritten social contract' between families and schools is fuelling the absence crisis

Welsh secretary David TC Davies had to deal with sharp questions from BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce after claiming the 2p National Insurance cut would leave families better off

There are already more than two million pensioners living in relative poverty - Conservatives will leave even more people worried about how they are going to heat their homes, pay their bills and eat

Political columnist Paul Routledge on the how people who were reviled in life for standing up for what they believe in - like the miners - are only celebrated in death

The PM fuelled rumours he could call an early election this lunchtime when he failed to deny that he was secretly plotting a vote in May during an interview on BBC Radio 2

As well as receiving funding from trade unions, the Labour Party saw an increase in the amount of money received from individuals and companies, who gave over £13million

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has defended Science and Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan after she falsely accused academic Professor Kate Sang of supporting Hamas

Experts warned that older people will be worse off after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget, with millions facing an average £1,000 hit to their incomes because of tax changes

As he appeared on ITV's Peston, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt refused to answer question on how many properties he owns after announcing a Budget tax break for landlords

Rishi Sunak cryptically responded 'what matters is the choice' when asked by BBC presenter Jeremy Vine whether he would be calling a May election

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt got annoyed as BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenter Amol Rajan accused him of failing to do enough to turn around the economy in the Budget

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of acting like Liz Truss after he said in the Budget he wanted to scrap National Insurance altogether without saying how he'd pay for it

Mum-of-two Rhian works as a nurse on an acute hospital ward and has been in the NHS for 26 years. The 45-year-old from Leeds said the real terms pay cuts are forcing nurses out

MPs from the cross-party Business and Trade Committee called for the Government to speed up paying compensation for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

Overnight analysis of Jeremy Hunt's Budget by the Resolution Foundation raised the alarm about public service cuts and highlighted a huge drop in disposable income since 2019

Jeremy Hunt tried to bribe voters by cutting national insurance again and offering a small increase in child benefit - but nobody is going to fall for this Tory con trick

The landlady of one formerly thriving village pub said the Budget had ended any hope of it staying open. It comes as grassroots Campaign for Pubs called Wednesday's announcements “an absolutely dreadful Budget for UK pubs”