Starmer faces more backbench pressure over ‘heinous’ and ‘sexist’ benefit cap
Rosie Duffield likened the policy to the dystopian world of The Handmaid’s Tale, in which women’s rights have been taken away.
Four in 10 Tory MPs now on the front bench
Rishi Sunak announced more interim appointments to the Conservative front bench on Friday.
Starmer as popular as Johnson during vaccine rollout, poll finds
Around a third of the public thought Labour was doing better than expected in Government.
Rayner hits back at Trump running mate’s claim that the UK is ‘Islamist’ country
Angela Rayner told ITV JD Vance had said ‘quite a lot of fruity things in the past’.
Tories took £50k from firm linked to man jailed for exploiting his domestic staff
Prakash Hinduja was jailed by a Swiss court shortly before a company linked to him donated £50,000 to the Conservative Party.
Labour ditches ‘levelling up’ title from department, saying ‘no more gimmicks’
The ministry responsible for local government was renamed the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities by Boris Johnson in 2021.
Reform UK’s five MPs arrive for first day in Westminster
Nigel Farage became an MP at the eighth time of asking in last week’s General Election.
‘Grim briefings’ on nuclear option await Starmer on first day as PM
Each of Britain’s four nuclear-armed submarines carries a handwritten letter from the prime minister with orders in case Britain is wiped out.
Starmer denies Labour has given up on Clacton
Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘very supportive’ of Clacton Labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, despite claims the party had given up on the seat.