Rishi Sunak was told he must cut taxes to win back disenchanted voters after a double by-election drubbing. Tory MPs said income tax must be reduced in the budget next month as new research found governments that reduce the burden win at
A Conservative peer is calling on the government to honour a pledge to invest in specialist fracture clinics made during a parliamentary debate last week. During a debate on Monday Lord Markham, Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health revealed
All English councils will be told to prioritise brownfield developments to boost housebuilding while protecting the green belt. The bar for refusing brownfield plans will also be made much higher for big city councils who are failing to hit their locally agreed
Police chiefs are under mounting pressure to tackle the “tsunami” of shoplifting blighting communities across the UK. Officers have “lost grip on the scale and severity of acquisitive crime” as the number of crimes has rocketed to a new record high, a
Tory rebels are already breaking rank over the forthcoming Tobacco and Vapes Bill, ahead of what may be one of Rishi Sunak’s biggest civil wars since becoming Prime Minister. While Mr Sunak has been touring TV studios promoting a new ban on
The probe will look at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, where he was treated for paranoid schizophrenia. The knifeman – who butchered students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65 was sentenced to detention in a high-security hospital
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has insisted he is desperately trying to resolve the military’s recruitment crisis. Mr Shapps was warned three times as many troops are quitting compared to the number who are joining the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air
Cabinet Minister Penny Mordaunt warned that the Royal Navy must “keep pace” with navies around the World otherwise “Britain’s interests cannot be secured”. And Lord General Richard Dannatt drew parallels with the 1930s when the “woeful” state of the UK’s armed forces
A library in England insists there are no hard feelings after a book was recently returned 44 years after it was due — and is just glad to have the copy back. The book, “Great Prime Ministers” by John Whittle, was originally
MPs will launch a fightback against nanny state proposals from the World Health Organisation tomorrow, aimed at handing over powers over tobacco control. Next month the WHO will call for COP10 countries to clamp down even harder on e-cigarettes and vapes, even