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Union leaders will press Keir Starmer to protect its workers' rights reforms as a new poll shows even Tory voters back the plans. Labour's union backers will hold crunch talks with party chiefs on Tuesday over the "New Deal for Working…

Remember when Esther McVey, the Government’s Minister for Common Sense, went on to Question Time and couldn’t explain what a Minister for ­Common Sense does? Our Esther’s humiliated, stony face as presenter Fiona Bruce tried to make sense…

The Conservative Party has been forced to refer itself to the data watchdog after accidentally sharing hundreds of email addresses.In a major blunder, an official email was sent to members encouraging them to sign up for this year's Tory…

Rishi Sunak has reeled off a list of things voters should be scared of as he made a desperate general election pitch. The Prime Minister warned an "axis of authoritarian states" is plotting to undermine the UK and its allies. He added…

A Health Minister issued an apology after an MPs' report found poor care in maternity services is "frequently tolerated as normal".A parliamentary inquiry heard harrowing stories including accounts of stillbirth, life-changing injuries, and…

He's tried being reliable. He's rebranded. He's even offered renewal, by pretending he's just pitched up in the middle of someone else's drama.In less than two years, Rishi Sunak has cycled through every soap opera stock character from…

Rishi Sunak has listed things he says will make the world a more dangerous place in the next five years in a blatant election pitch.The under-fire PM, fresh from the drubbing the Tories endured in the local elections this month, warned the…

Tories making a lot of noise about Angela Rayner and capital gains tax are less vocal when it comes to the profits their own MPs have made from selling second homes. Four who have raked in £5.4million between them ­from flogging houses…

For weeks, the Tories have hounded Angela Rayner over her tax affairs.Labour’s deputy leader has repeatedly denied avoiding capital gains tax when she sold her former council house. This has not stopped the Conservatives and their allies in…

Cash-strapped pensioners relying on food bank services almost doubled amid a year of Tory chaos, according to a new analysis.It shows almost 100,000 retirees lived in a household that accessed the emergency support in the year of the energy…