Aubrey Allegretti

Dame Penny Mordaunt is one of the cohort facing a weeks-long delay to find out if they can stand for Kemi Badenoch’s party at the next election

Car washes, window cleaning and swimming pools on course for restrictions after a summer of record heatwaves and little rainfall

The housing secretary’s rewritten planning rules give a ‘default yes’ to developments near public transport in a move to reduce dependency on cars

The housing secretary published new regulations to speed up housebuilding, but the change could make it more difficult to counter retrospecitive applications

One of the Labour party’s biggest donors has reversed his opposition to developing Jackdaw and Rosebank platforms after talks with Andy Burnham

The prime minister wants to take a more robust line on the issue than Sir Keir Starmer, but Labour remains divided over the practicalities

Labour MPs fear the White House could retaliate over Britain’s plans to boycott goods and services linked to settlements in the West Bank

Inflation has eroded the £23,250 asset limit for state funding since 2010, forcing thousands of vulnerable people to clear out their own savings

The former adviser on women and girls said the Tory leader’s promotion of Claire Coutinho in a reshuffle was ‘a very progressive thing to do’

Baroness Manningham-Buller backed principle of the duty of candour law, but without extra resources staff will ‘service past rather than preventing the future’