The former head of Northern Ireland’s Civil Service has said it “probably would have been prudent” to have established the emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic days earlier. The UK
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Dozens of MPs, including former prime minister Liz Truss, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove and former health secretary Steve Barclay have been criticised after new analysis revealed people in their
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The Government is suing two companies for more than £140 million after they allegedly supplied Covid-19 test kits which “failed at an unacceptable rate”, the High Court has heard. The
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The number of children living in temporary accommodation has reached another record high, while people needing help for homelessness due to no-fault evictions has also reached a new peak. A
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Steps to ensure harassment victims can have malicious complaints made against them scratched from the record have been promised by the Government in the face of a Tory-led rebellion. The
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Thousands of asylum seekers earmarked by the Home Office for deportation to Rwanda have lost contact with the department, a Government document suggests. Out of 5,700 people identified for removal,
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, blasted politicians as “dysfunctional bastards” in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Fractious exchanges at Stormont were detailed during the
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Changing the law to legalise assisted dying could see people killed because they are old, an at-times emotional parliamentary debate has heard, while others rejected a picture painted of a
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The Work and Pensions Secretary has refused to set out which health conditions will no longer result in access to sickness benefits, as part of the Government’s major welfare reforms.
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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales has branded changes to the way police forces log crimes a “serious mistake”. Nicole Jacobs (pictured) accused the Government of choosing “administrative
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