Labour’s Richard Parker beat Conservative Andy Street by 1,508 votes to become Mayor of the West Midlands. With the loss of the West Midlands, the Prime Minister is left with the sole consolation of a mayoral victory in the Tees Valley.
A former top Post Office lawyer who oversaw Alan Bates’s High Court battle against the business is refusing to co-operate with the statutory inquiry.
The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to present a compensation package for WASPI women before the summer recess.
TwitterA House Oversight Committee hearing that was supposed to cover contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland devolved into chaos and name-calling after repeated interruptions from a certain far-right representative from Georgia.Thursday night’s meeting was originally intended to advance a measure to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. But it quickly fell off the rails, with Marjorie Taylor
At last a Scottish politician has come up with a persuasive argument in support of Scottish independence.
Geert Wilders said that he would implement the Netherlands’ “strictest-ever” migration policy, as the new Dutch government pledged to quit EU asylum rules, on Thursday.
IN FOCUS: Sergei Borisovich Korolev, the first deputy director of the FSB, is said by European officials to have emerged a winner behind the scenes in the Russian president’s recent Kremlin reshuffle. Kim Sengupta reports
The DWP has identified people who may be able to claim back money they are owed
This week’s weekly tracker poll by Techne UK provides more bad news for the Tories
The Supreme Court justice said the upside-down American flag was his wife's doing.
The California Democrat joked that it was "nice to see" GOP lawmakers who could make it to the meeting.
The revelation this week about the flag flying at Alito’s home was the latest blow to a Supreme Court that was already under fire as it considers unprecedented cases against Trump and some of those charged with rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Alito has said the flag was briefly flown by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors and he had no part in it. The high court is now facing questions about whether the spouses of two of its members question the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and if those justices should be hearing cases related to the Jan. 6 riot and Trump’s role in it.
Jeremy Hunt is right about one thing: if you think you’re overtaxed by the Tories, it’s guaranteed to be even worse under Labour.
The Tories labelled Sir Keir Starmer a “serial promise breaker” as they responded to the Labour leader setting out six of his main general election pledges.
Slovak populist prime minister shot in stomach during meeting with supporters in Handlova
Police officers who took a two-hour kebab break on the night of the Manchester bombing have been issued with written warnings for their conduct.
The legislation is meant to split Democratic members of the House amid Biden’s pausing of aid to Israel
CNN and Fox News personalities ripped into lawmakers on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee over Thursday night’s mayhem, where they traded insults and threw the committee into disorder that lasted nearly an hour. The Thursday night hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress spiraled into chaos as Reps. Marjorie Taylor…
DWP has been urged to propose its plan for compensating women who were underpaid State Pension payments "before the summer recess".
Scottish Conservative Liam Kerr told the First Minister he would be the fourth leader since an SNP election promise to upgrade the road, on which an accident recently left four people injured.
A probe by Sky has discovered that information was shared between Post Office investigation teams and the DWP.
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