Kemi Badenoch sacks Robert Jenrick over his secret plot to defect to Reform UK
The Tory leader said she was “presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret”

It was not an ideal start to the campaign proceedings

Rishi Sunak announces a snap summer general election

‘It must be exhausting being this tedious’

‘I would like personally for Mel Stride to come with me on a bootcamp for carers’

EHRC ‘extremely worried’ about the treatment of disabled benefits claimants by the government department

‘’The cost of living crisis is not over – no matter how much ministers pretend it is’

A victory for pro-democracy campaigners who have been resisting the government’s assault on the right to protest

Shameful number of children getting to class too hungry to learn makes the case for universal free school meals

It comes amid calls from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to scrap the two-child benefit limit

His review on ‘political violence and disruption’ suggests some groups pay for policing of their protests and calls to restrict protest groups organising or raising money if they ‘cause serious disruption’