Ministers are facing Labour backbench calls to widen access to their proposed top tier of sickness benefits. Labour backbencher Graeme Downie has proposed a welfare reform Bill amendment, so universal ...

A former Labour MP has said that she will set up a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Zarah Sultana – who had the Labour whip suspended last year – said she was resigning from Sir Keir Starmer’s party and ...

Young people “are going to be committing terrorist acts, probably, by the weekend”, Lord Walney has warned during a debate on the proscription of protest group Palestine Action. The former independent ...

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has apologised after a judge fined him £70,000 for crashing a car into a tree while drink-driving earlier this year. Murphy, 29, drove his grey Mercedes A-Class off the ...

Tributes have been paid to a police officer who collapsed and died while on duty. Pc Ian Minett, 38, died last month while on night duty with Gloucestershire Police. The officer had rejoined the force ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has been likened to flat-earthers by one of its own MPs, over its refusal to compensate women affected by state pension age changes. Labour’s Rebecca Long Bailey said the ...

The Scottish Secretary has said the UK Government is still working to reform the “utterly broken” welfare system, following the substantial concessions made in Parliament earlier this week. Ian Murray ...

The Home Secretary has said she is “deeply concerned” that MI5 gave false evidence to the High Court and that the Government accepts a further investigation should take place. Yvette Cooper told MPs ...

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have said they will speak by phone on Thursday. It will be their sixth publicly disclosed chat since Mr Trump returned to the White House ...

Several people have been stabbed near a shopping centre in the southern Finnish city of Tampere, according to reports. Public broadcaster Yle reported that one person was detained without giving ...

The chief inspector of Ofsted has apologised that schools will no longer get a full term’s notice before inspection reforms are introduced in England. Last month, the watchdog said it would delay ...

A parliamentary watchdog has opened an investigation into whether former Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson has breached spending rules. The probe by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) ...