Geraldine Scott

Whitehall is being urged not to change the current policy, which offers people having gender procedures 13 weeks of paid absence

British ministers are braced for further arrivals of so-called mega-dinghies carrying migrants across the Channel after a vessel with a record 230 people on board arrived in Dover.

The prime minister is considering the use of women’s prisons and faster deporting of foreign criminals so that Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers remain in jail

The communities secretary said her children were ‘disgusted’ by her vaping habit as she launched a crackdown on e-cigarette shops

Andy Burnham corresponded with a person he believed to be the White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who had been hacked

Andy Burnham will decide whether to approve the Rosebank oilfield and Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea but will face opposition if he goes ahead

WhatsApp messages show talk of wiping Israel off the map, support for the Iranian regime and claims that anti-Jewish hostility is understandable

The proposals would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to work until midnight at weekends during term time and without restrictions during the school holidays

Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner, calls for a range of curbs to be introduced amid concerns over a ‘fascination’ with violence online

The number of the 8.4 million people receiving the benefit who do not have to look for a job outnumbers those who do by three to one, official figures show