Politics
Working class should ‘aim lower’ than Oxbridge, social mobility tsar claims
Katharine Birbalsingh will claim people from poor backgrounds should aim to take "smaller steps" instead of going for top universities.
A Tory MP tried to challenge Lisa Nandy on levelling up and it did not go well
Jonathan Gullis tried to call out Labour's record in Stoke-on-Trent, but Lisa Nandy was having none of it.
YouGov ‘banned’ 2017 debate poll because it was ‘too good for Corbyn’
A former manager at YouGov said the pollster was pressured by its Tory MP founder to suppress the poll.
Patel tries to deport whistle-blowing ex-Iranian police officer to Rwanda
The officer fled to the UK in May after being sentenced to five years in prison for disobeying orders to fire on civilians.
PMQs: For Boris the Black Knight, 148 attacks leave just a flesh wound
In 'the life of Boris' he claimed he alienated 148 of his own MPs because he has done "big, remarkable things". These 148 "rebels" should have walked out as the PM sauntered in, but they didn’t.
Brazen Boris tells PMQs: ‘My political career has barely begun’
Johnson was defiant after a Labour MP told him he is "loathed" by his own party.
Tories accused by MPs of wasting billions on ‘levelling up’
The Public Affairs Committee has accused the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of unfairly allocating funding.
‘Will we be paying?’ Javid grilled over ‘absurd’ NHS Netflix remarks
The health secretary likened the NHS to Blockbuster "in the age of Netflix".
Demand referendum on better NHS pay, Gordon Brown tells nurses
It is "unbelievable" that nurses are having to rely on food banks, the former prime minister said.