Johnson faces mounting pressures to investigate Islamophobia claims

BORIS JOHNSON is facing mounting pressure from both his own ministers and Labour to hold an inquiry into claims that a junior minister was sacked b

‘PM has poisoned Conservative Party’

THE former Tory MP who defected to Labour accused Boris Johnson yesterday of having “poisoned the Tory Party from top to bottom” and warned that he

A million more disabled people trapped in poverty under the Conservatives

THE number of disabled people living in poverty has risen by over a million since the Conservatives took power in 2010, new analysis by Labour has

Ministers urged to ‘take their heads out of the sand’ as hospital prepares to move patients to hotel

Palestinian rights campaigners protest against destruction of homes in Sheikh Jarrah

PALESTINIAN rights campaigners demonstrated outside the Israel embassy in London today in protest against destruction of homes in Sheikh Jarrah, ea

Government's BBC cuts are a ‘pathetic’ attempt to distract from Johnson's scandals, Labour charges

THE government is signalling “the end of the BBC as we know it” in a “pathetic” attempt to distract from Boris Johnson’s difficulties over Downing

Persistent failures forcing kids to grow up in poor conditions

CHILDREN in London are growing up in substandard and uninhabitable temporary accommodation as a result of persistent policy failures by central and

Act on cost-of-living crisis or squander GDP growth, TUC warns

ECONOMIC “recovery” won’t mean much for ordinary people unless the government acts on the cost of living, the TUC, Labour Party and experts urged t

Charities urge PM and Chancellor to end the energy bill crisis

Save the Children, Age UK, End Fuel Poverty Coalition and more warn rising costs push millions more households into fuel poverty

State schools 'hit harder by staff absences than private schools'

STATE schools are more seriously affected by Covid-related staff absences than private schools, a new report reveals today.