Rachel Reeves has started the appointment process for a Covid corruption commissioner tasked with getting back “what is owed to the British people”. The Chancellor (pictured) told MPs the commissioner
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Sir Keir Starmer said there is “no silver bullet” to end child poverty but that “it’s good that we’re having a debate” about the two-child benefit cap as he faces
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A young woman with chronic fatigue syndrome begged her GP for help just months before she died, an inquest heard. Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, 27, had written to her doctor asking for
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The Rwanda deportation scheme cost Britain £700 million despite only four volunteers being sent to Kigali, Yvette Cooper has said, branding the policy the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money
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Five people have been taken into custody after scenes of violent disorder in a Leeds suburb, with police warning further arrests will be made as part of a “relentless” investigation.
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The Justice Secretary is looking to sack the boss of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) after a review found wrongly jailed Andrew Malkinson was failed and could have been
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Lady Hallett “has not gone far enough” in setting out how the UK can improve inequalities that were laid bare during the pandemic, bereaved families have said. Relatives gathered at
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Greater Manchester Police has apologised and accepted the recommendations of an “explosive” report into the experiences of women and girls arrested and taken into custody by the force. Former victims’
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Scotland’s First Minister has vowed to “carefully consider” recommendations made by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry after it found the UK and Scottish governments “failed their citizens” during the pandemic. Inquiry
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The Welsh government’s response to the Covid pandemic was “hampered by undue complexity,” a public inquiry has found. In its first report into preparedness for a pandemic, the UK Covid-19
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