The Conservatives have published a plan to cut £36.1 billion a year from the welfare bill by the end of the next parliament, ...

The education secretary has said children “should not be using smartphones at any point during the school day, full stop”, as ...

Brett Wigdortz, co-founder and CEO, tiney, the UK’s largest childminder agency, whose childminders work across 146 of England ...

Can you name the MP? Labour/Co-op - London Play now ...

A role normally assigned to a department’s permanent secretary, making them directly accountable to parliament for all departmental spending. Accounting officers must ensure spending meets four ...

A scandal triggered in May 2009 by the Daily Telegraph publication of leaked, unredacted details of MPs’ expense claims. It revealed widespread misuse of public money by MPs across all parties, ...

The prime minister argues that leaving the EU has caused permanent harm to the economy. His whole case is founded on invented ...

One of the lines I was most pleased to hear at Labour conference was health secretary Yvette Cooper’s: “I will not stop until ...

Andy Burnham entered Downing Street in July vowing to reverse the “wrong turns” of British statecraft over the past 40 years.

John Healey has announced a £100 energy payment for 20 million households in council tax bands A to D, paid directly into bank accounts this winter. Delivering his first budget as chancellor, Healey ...

For parents and family members, a diagnosis of Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, known as MLD, is devastating. MLD is a genetic ...

The reform of the House of Lords has been on the cards for centuries. It was actually abolished in 1649, but re-instated a few years later (along with the monarchy), and has remained the subject of ...