Activities such as singing, cooking or gardening will also be offered in new push to cut benefits

Liz Truss’s long-awaited resignation honours list has been branded “rewards for failure” by Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth. The Electoral Reform Society has also called for urgent reform to the “rotten and out of control” peerage system and cr ...

Lord Pannick said to have warned individual appeal claims would limit the chances of success

Tory grandee doesn’t ‘buy’ MPs’ argument that tax on inherited wealth is widely hated

Arrests follow protest calling for Gaza ceasefire

Tory MP Dame Caroline Dinenage has suggested it is time to “move on” from James Cleverly’s spiking joke. The home secretary has faced calls to quit after last week joking about putting a date rape drug in his wife’s drink - hours after the Ho ...

Impact assessment which found radical plan ‘discriminatory’ pulled from government website

Former Tory PM takes new swipe at his successor over stalled progess on Britain’s energy independence

Survey puts Badenoch narrowly ahead of Suella Braverman and Penny Mordaunt in race to succeed Rishi sunak

Speculation is building about the date of the general election – and the prime minister’s tenure at No 10

With the polls against him and the Tories in turmoil, a May date might be the PM’s best gamble – but gambling isn’t his forte, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome

The UK is “desperate for an election”, Emily Thornberry has claimed. Speaking to Sky News on Thursday 28 December, the shadow attorney general added that Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget date of 6 March “seems to confirm” that voters will be hea ...

James Cleverly should be “thoroughly ashamed of himself” over his date rape joke, Emily Thornberry has said. No action will be taken against the home secretary, as prime minister Rishi sunak “considers the matter closed”. Mr Cleverly has face ...

Prime minsiter has reportedly ordered a ‘gear change’ on tax as his party flounders in the polls

Ministers looking for election boost for Rishi sunak think about revisiting tax cut idea that last surfaced before autumn statement

Sixty-three claims for pothole-related damage were made by motorists every day last year, the Liberal Democrats have said. The party has called for road maintenance budgets to be fully restored by the government, accusing the Conservatives of oversee ...

Rishi sunak shared a Home Alone-inspired video message filmed in No 10 for Christmas Day. In the short clip, the prime minister asks “am I the only one here?” in an empty office before parking his work and having some festive fun. He is seen bowl ...

The Tory prime ministers of Christmas past have their own ideas about sunak’s broken Britain

The prime minister said Christmas is ‘a time of hope’ but that it is important to remember those ‘facing a difficult time’

The ghosts of Brexit, immigration and recession decide not to wake the prime minister