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Stuart Andrew, who is responsible for gambling as Under-Secretary of State for Sport, spoke to Nick Luck on Racing TV over the introduction of affordability checks

MP Diane Abbott has sat as an independent since April last year after Labour withdrew the whip following comments over the Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities

'Learning music opened doors for me. It gave me that thrill of being on stage. It introduced me to people from different backgrounds, and when we played together, it didn’t matter where you came from,'

A mobility component is available to people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Adult or Child Disability Payment (ADP) in Scotland and Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

Vladimir Putin's forces have been branded "wildly irresponsible" after the GPS signal and internet signal were blocked as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps flew back from Poland

The world might not be ready for another ‘devastating pandemic’ with global response to ‘health threats’ waning, according to a bombshell new US intelligence report

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) confirmed today that MPs will get a £4,762 hike to the £86,584 basic salary from April - a rise of 5.5%

Michael Gove said the Muslim Association of Britain, Cage and Mend and the neo-nazi British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative will be assessed for extremism

It’s understood Frank Hester has donated another £5million to the Tories since January - a figure the Tories did not deny - on top of the £10million he had already handed the party

The UK has seen an increase in authorised 'push payment' fraud over the past few years, and in 2022 victims lost £485 million to such scams, the Government said

Tory peer and chairman of supermarket giant Asda Stuart Rose said the 'sooner we call an election the better' and even suggested he could endorse Keir Starmer's Labour

By refusing to return Hester’s donation, Mr Sunak is giving licence to the racists who prey on people’s worst instincts

In a fiery PMQs exchange Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, and other MPs discussed a Tory donor's racist comments about Diane Abbott - but the veteran MP was not chosen to ask the PM a question

Communities Secretary Michael Gove has unveiled a long-awaited extremism definition aimed at ensuring certain groups are effectively blacklisted by public bodies

Artist Damien Hirst, who was a free school meals kid, will argue that culture should be 'not just for the rich by the rich' as he endorses Labour's plan to widen access

The US is between the Devil and the deep blue zzzzzeee as Joe BIden and Donald Trump lock aged horns once again - with unenthusiastic voters telling the Mirror 'what alternative do we have? Anyone but Trump'...

Both current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have a slew of issues they must overcome if either of them hope to win reelection and beat out the other in November

The Government has repeatedly refused to share its assessments on tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite saying it is a safe country

The former Shadow Cabinet Minister Andy McDonald had the Labour whip suspended in October over comments he made at a pro-Palestine rally. He has since sat as an independent MP

The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but many other counts in the indictment remain

Lucy Alexander has secured another big break on daytime television after leaving behind Homes Under the Hammer. At the same time, she is also helping her famous children find property as they fly the nest

Pensioner Sandra fears for her life as she struggles to stay warm in her uninsulated home which is overrun with damp and mould. Here, she shares her terrifying situation with The Mirror

Rishi Sunak was challenged to explain how he'd find an estimated £46billion a year to scrap National Insurance Contributions (NICs), but didn't rule out NHS and pension cuts

Businessman Frank Hester allegedly said that seeing MP Diane Abbott on TV made him 'want to hate all Black women' and that she should be 'shot' in a meeting in 2019

US politicians will vote this week on a bill to ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok unless its owner, technology company ByteDance, sells it