“What’s your thing in politics, Michael?” David Cameron asked, when I started to support the Conservatives in their electoral dark days of the mid-noughties. I immediately knew: “My thing is families.” The Conservatives’ hints of supporting families if they came back into
Jeremy Hunt has warned interest rates must be cut because of the financial “pain” families are going through. The Chancellor said that rates should be slashed from their current 5.25 percent because inflation has started to plunge. Mr Hunt’s remarks came during
The soaring cost of formula milk is forcing families into “tough choices” to feed their babies, a shocking report has revealed. Some 65% of women said they felt anxious or worried about the price of formula, which has risen by a quarter
Everyone in the chamber seemed to miss the joke but inside the Prime Minister must have been laughing. In what is becoming a signature haplessness in his performances in Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked Rishi Sunak
Amid the fallout from a revived race row inside the House of Windsor, she went to the Garden Museum in London and heard her host cite Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s opening line from Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
An estate in Manchester that is “riddled” with rats caused a young family to flee their home. The Limeside estate in Greater Manchester has become a breeding ground for rats, leaving residents in a state of despair. One family in particular was
Friends and family of Paul-Henri Nargeolet have described feeling devastated after the US Coast Guard confirmed there were no survivors aboard the Titan submersible. A renowned Titanic expert, a world record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families and the