MPs should not be expected to be "saints", the new chair of the Commons standards committee has said, as he called for punishments for breaking minor rules to be less…
Here are the results: Kemi Badenoch has robustly defended her dislike of sandwiches, telling the BBC she was "happy with my unique choices". In an interview with The Spectator, the…
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said he does not regret voting to block UK military action against then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013. Prime Minister at the time David…
The UK does not have enough construction workers to build the 1.5 million homes the government keeps promising, industry leaders have warned. Tens of thousands of new recruits are needed…
Ministers have been urged to speed up plans to criminalise the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images. Conservative peer Baroness Owen has proposed a law to make it an offence…
Cheshire East Council will ask for more than £50m over the next two years. The authority, which signed off a multimillion-pound cost cutting plan over the summer, is set to…
Police chiefs have warned the home secretary that without further funding, neighbourhood police officers - a government priority - could be cut. Nearly a quarter of police forces in England…
The government has unveiled plans to give ministers the final say on approving large onshore wind farms rather than leaving decisions to local councils. The plan is among proposals to…
Here is the result in plain text: Some voters complain that politicians are all the same but now a clear difference has emerged between the two main party leaders. In…
A baroness who called a peer of Indian origin "Lord Poppadom" is facing a suspension from the House of Lords after an investigation found her comments amounted to harassment. The…
