Politics

Ex-Post Office Chief Executive Paula Vennells was put forward for a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list by the Department for Business amid growing alarm over the Horizon IT scandal

Home Office documents reveal deep concerns about Rwanda's treatment of protesters, the killing of 12 refugees by police and discrimination toward LGBT people were dismissed

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would carry out a 'review' of all British arms sales - but refused to repeat a promise to stop sales to Saudi Arabia

The ex-PM and Foreign Secretary David Cameron rejects reports he earned £10million for work at failed firm Greensill Capital - but refuses to disclose earnings

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said the UK Government will work with its allies and warned: 'We will be prepared to back words with actions'

Alicia Kearns MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says if the UK and US had not acted, the Houthis would eventually have caused a maritime disaster

Lord Dannat, the former Chief of General Staff, says "Of course there is a danger of escalation - though the calculation will have been that the risks of inaction outweighed those of action"

It’s more than double the figure the department spent on outside advisors the previous year. It comes as the department’s spending on temporary agency staff also reached a record high of nearly £40 million

Tory minister Alex Burghart admitted he uses an experimental “AI Red Box”, developed by the Cabinet Office, to sift through the stack of papers he’s given to read every day.

Mrs Murty donated her stake in Koru Kids to charity after her involvement became an "unfair distraction" for the charity, it was announced this week

Pat Cullen, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, warned the Prime Minister that 'every option – including strike action – is on the table'

There should really be more noble reasons for unleashing airstrikes on a country than oil, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie, but that's exactly what Rishi Sunak did at the end of the week

We believe that Alan Bates, who led the fight for justice in the Post Office scandal, should be honoured with a CBE or a knighthood - and 130,000 people have signed our petition

Junior doctors often hold our lives in their hands and work awful hours to have that responsibility, so why aren't they being paid their fair share, asks guest columnist Antony Cotton

From laughing at the way Rishi Sunak used a hammer to relentlessly mocking Gillian Keegan over RAAC, Labour has been ramping up its attacks on the Tories ahead of an election year

If the opinion polls stay roughly the way they are, the Tory vote will be decimated and the big beasts with the small majorities will face televised shaming, says Brian Reade

Labour MP Nadia Whittome says that the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, should be closed - warning a suspected suicide onboard last month might not be the last

A long-delayed report on the Government's wine cellar shows the value of the collection has soared to £3.66million. It shows 130 bottles were consumed between 2020-2021

Labour leader Keir Starmer said it is now 'impossible' to go ahead with the HS2 line to Manchester, which Rishi Sunak scrapped in his Tory Party Conference speech in October

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that UK backing in the war against Russia won't falter amid alarm over slowing support from allies

The Labour leader Keir Starmer will order health bosses to prioritise children caught up in record NHS waiting lists and will 'personally monitor' progress if he wins power

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held an emergency call with his Cabinet tonight to brief ministers on the situation after attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea in recent days

A public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, which saw more than 900 Post Office staff convicted due to software failures, will hear from investigator Stephen Bradshaw

In evidence to the Post Office Inquiry, Stephen Bradshaw was confronted with claims of bullying and forced to deny his team acted like 'Mafia gangsters' towards innocent postmasters

Campaigners say the Government is overlooking the "urgent need" to provide safe and legal routes for people fleeing war and persecution to claim asylum in the UK