Politics

Labour overwhelmingly won Scotland’s first recall by-election with Michael Shanks declared the new MP after securing more than 58 per cent of the votes.

Religious hate crimes were up by 9 per cent to 9,387 offences, while transgender hate crimes increased by 11 per cent, to 4,732 offences.

Officials in London and Brussels have reportedly concluded the substance of an agreement which is in the ‘final stages’.

And you'll never believe where the Tories think Manchester is...

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the cost of pulling out of the agreements will ‘broadly balance out’ with money recovered from selling land.

And there’s a chance he’ll be boasting a blue rosette when the UK next goes to the polls.

The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.

"This doesn’t work for north-to-south, it doesn’t work east-to-west, and what we’re seeing in this plan is a decade of rail replacement buses with electrification."

“Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal?”