Category: Politics

A senior Labour MP’s £900 “pet rent” expenses claim has prompted ministers to call for a review of what MPs can claim back. Taiwo Owatemi, a government whip and the MP for…

The government is looking at other countries it could process asylum seekers in, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told Sky News. Speaking to Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, Ms Cooper said the…

The morning-after pill could become free from pharmacies in order to end an “unfair postcode lottery”, according to a health minister.  The morning-after pill is a type of emergency contraception taken to…

The government should hold an urgent COBRA meeting to deal with Birmingham’s ongoing bin strikes, the Conservatives say. The party has written a letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Communities Secretary Angela…

Company bosses hiring in the gig economy could face up to five years in prison if they fail to check if their employees can legally work in the UK, the Home Office…

They were calling it the “biggest rally in modern political history” and while there has been momentum brewing within Reform UK, this event didn’t even come close to meeting those expectations. It…

‘Many people’ are ‘fearful’ of trying work, PM tells Sky News, as he defends welfare cuts Sir Keir Starmer has defended the government’s cuts to welfare, saying “many people” on benefits “find…

The Sentencing Council has rejected calls from the justice secretary to change guidance that recommends judges consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their punishment. The body, which sets out sentencing guidance to…

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Government whips will be overestimating the number of Labour rebels over welfare cuts as a form of “expectation management”, Dame Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction…