A dozen Labour MPs have joined a cross-party call for an “extreme wealth” tax in this month’s Budget. The MPs have written to chancellor Rachel Reeves to demand a new…

PA O’Neill has corrected the age of a teenage that was sent inappropriate texts by a former Irish senator and Belfast mayor Michelle O’Neill has corrected the record at Stormont…

Getty Images MP Richard Holden will lead a parliamentary debate on Tuesday to call for the protection of the Cockney favourite It is as Cockney as a Pearly Queen in…

Suella Braverman forwarded government documents to her private email accounts at least 127 times while she was attorney general in a potential breach of the ministerial code, it has emerged.…

Some members of the public have not taken Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s call for new ideas to improve the health service as seriously as he might have hoped. Suggested ideas…

Labour’s plans to upgrade workers’ rights will cost businesses up to £5bn a year to implement, according to the government’s own analysis. The new measures would have a disproportionate impact…

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating the construction of a hotel and conference centre owned by one of the UK’s biggest trade unions, the BBC can reveal. Unite the Union…

Government ministers are considering a smacking ban for England, the Department for Education has confirmed. Smacking bans have already been brought in by devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Jersey,…

Angela Rayner has been made a full member of the UK’s national security council (NSC), following a U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer. The deputy prime minister’s name did not appear…

Taxi drivers are buying licences in Wolverhampton to get round tough rules aimed at protecting children, a Labour MP claims. One-in-five private hire vehicles in England, such as Ubers and…