Rishi Sunak has refused to commit to building HS2 to Manchester but insisted that the government is committed to levelling up ...

Government won’t meet its target to end rough sleeping by 2024 says panel of experts Chronic and unresolved systemic issues ...

As a dyed in the wool Conservative I believe in freedom of choice, but smoking is not a matter of free choice. The only free ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The Liberal Democrats will focus their general election campaigns on ultra-local issues rather than the national narrative, it ...

The new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Rt Hon Claire Coutinho MP will make one of her first major ...

PRIVATE renters across London are being urged to use a reporting tool which could see illegal fees charged by landlords and letting agents returned to their pockets. London Trading Standards, working ...

Housing costs are a source of concern to many, yet around two in five people would potentially feel reluctant to discuss their budget pressures with their landlord or mortgage lender, according to new ...

Carl Cullinane, Director of Research and Policy at the Sutton Trust, said: “We welcome this commitment to a permanent national tutoring scheme in England. Tutoring is a powerful intervention, and the ...

Simon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, which is part of the Warm This Winter campaign and who was one of the experts called to give evidence to the Committee, commented: “This ...

Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, Helen Dickinson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “Returning consumer confidence helped retail sales regain lost ground ...

London, UK – responding to news that the UK government has scrapped the energy efficiency taskforce, Georgia Whittaker, Climate Campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: “This is a deeply cynical decision ...

MPs on the House of Commons Energy Security Committee have warned that another winter energy crisis is “inevitable” without further Government support for households. The cross-party Committee took ...