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Housing Secretary Michael Gove has agreed to delay ban in a bid to appease Tory rebels threatening to vote against the Renters Reform Bill as they are landlords themselves

February 24 has been earmarked as the date when a plane carrying asylum seekers who have reached the UK will depart for the Rwandan capital Kigali, it has emerged

Kevin Maguire says Keir Starmer is aware the Labour Party must gain a mammoth 125 seats to secure a basic majority of one in Parliament - and knows he should not be complacent

The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them

Ex-Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tory Party chairman Greg Hands got thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in payouts when they lost their jobs as ministers

The leader of the sector's biggest trade union has raised fears for its future following the controversial agreement over the plant, which will lead to 3,000 job cuts

Tory ministers have announced they will stop sending to people to jail for sentences shorter than a year, meaning thousands of shoplifters will no longer be locked up

Pranksters released a tape of them calling the Prime Minister’s personal mobile and getting through to his answerphone message. Downing Street refused to comment on the gaffe

The area from Hartlepool to Stockton-on-Tees has the highest shoplifting rate in the country - 15 times as many thefts each year as Surrey - with thieves openly stealing

The Chancellor faces a tough battle to keep his seat, with experts saying he could be among several big names to lose out when the country next goes to the polls

One of a number of severe results of climate change will be rising sea levels - this could see swathes of the UK's coastline affected, drawing once popular hotspots underwater

Incidents from April 1 to August 31 include a woman whose ovary was mistakenly removed and another patient whose spinal surgery was carried out on the wrong side

The Labour peer dismisses the Home Secretary's recent assertion that “multiculturalism has failed” and believes the UK should cheer the progress that has been made

Surely the Prime Minister's time would be better spent domestically at the moment, instead of making a trip to world capitals for an exchange of platitudes

Former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says the opening of the Rafah crossing into Egypt is important progress - but extracting British citizens held by Hamas will be very difficult

Polling expert Chris Curtis writes for the Mirror: No government has ever lost a seat as safe as Tamworth, while Labour’s victory in leafy Mid Bedfordshire illustrates how there aren’t any “no-go” areas for Kier Starmer’s party.

Protesters have discussed ways to interrupt the hit BBC One show as part of a campaign to step up the climate group’s action this autumn, prompting a security review

More than 1,500 complaints were made to Ofcom after Sky News anchor Kay Burley made 'potentially misleading' comments following the Hamas attack on Israel

New analysis of how the mammoth swing to Labour in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth might affect a nationwide poll found the Tories would be down to as few as 50 seats in the Commons

Aylesford school in Warwick was forced to close 29 classrooms where RAAC is suspected to be present - but can’t be inspected because of asbestos - but they're only getting 9 mobile buildings after officials insisted on them being erected on hard surfaces only

Former Love Island star Georgia Harrison has campaigned for better laws around image-based sexual violence following the conviction of her ex-partner, Stephen Bear

Air-strikes on the Palestinian Strip continued on Friday as conditions for residents worsened amid rationing of medical supplies as they await aid convoy from Egypt

The scale of Labour’s achievement is remarkable - the swing to Labour in Tamworth is the second largest recorded at a by-election since the Second World War

Labour made history with its double by-election victories - in Mid Bedfordshire, which Nadine Dorries won in 2019, it was the biggest majority ever overturned at a by-election

The Prime Minister held talks with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and also met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on the latest leg of his diplomatic tour