Politics

Tory moderates have set up a bruising clash with right-wingers by calling for Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill to be toned down ahead of a crunch vote next week

Fellow Labour MPs expressed sympathies as Sir Tony Lloyd said he will be 'leaving hospital to spend the time I have left with my family'

The Tory peer Zac Goldsmith, who quit Rishi Sunak's cabinet in June last year after being named and shamed for attempting to undermine a Partygate probe, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court

Offers of compensation and exoneration to Post Office victims are not enough, says Fleet Street Fox. True justice comes when they close the scandal factory

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Tory MP Sir Jake Berry clashed over why it took an ITV drama on the Post Office scandal to jolt the Government into action for victims

Voters in Kingswood and Wellingborough are expected to go to the polls in by-elections on February 15 after the departure of former Tory MPs Peter Bone and Chris Skidmore

Tory MP Jonathan Gullis challenged Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker to stand in Stoke-on-Trent North at the next general election, claiming he would "absolutely" beat him

Former Conservative MP Chris Skidmore said he will work with Labour on Net Zero and refused to encourage voters to vote for the Tories in the upcoming by-election in Kingswood

Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was Cabinet Secretary under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, suggested Labour could win between a 50-100 seat majority

Former Tory Cabinet minister and ex-COP26 President Alok Sharma, who is still a sitting Conservative MP, is receiving £50,000 every three months for 48 hours work

Downing Street has signalled that Alan Bates could get a knighthood after thousands joined our call for the former postmaster who exposed the Horizon scandal to be honoured

Keir Starmer is promising to have compulsory teeth cleaning in breakfast clubs and to ban vapes being advertised to kids to turn around poor health if Labour win the election

Post Office staff who were wrongly caught up in the Post Office IT scandal will receive compensation that Daily Mirror Pride of Britain winner and campaign hero Alan Bates says is not enough

More than 100,000 eligible disabled children are unable to access the free school meals they are meant to receive due to reasons including sensory difficulties or absence due to illness

As shocking ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office shed light on the plight of hundreds of sub-postmasters, we take a look at those operating in the background of the catastrophic series of events

Tyrone Steele, interim legal director at law charity Justice, said Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill "has tried to fundamentally change reality" - amid warnings it won't tackle a huge asylum backlog

Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner

HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'

Rishi Sunak made the long-awaited announcement at Prime Minister's Questions after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake sparked anger after he said it's not right for people to "make up their minds based on a dramatisation" as he was confronted by former Post Office workers who were victims of the Horizon scandal

Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE

Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal

At least nine former Cabinet ministers, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, are seeking to amend the Rwanda Bill during crunch debates next week

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was a mistake to award Paula Vennells a CBE in 2019, despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart by the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history