Greg Heffer

Shortly after their general election win in July, Labour agreed a 14 per cent rise over three years to push train drivers' average salaries up to nearly £70,000.

A new Department for Transport document will reportedly cite an HS2 board paper from June which put the cost at between £54billion and £66billion in 2019 prices.

Net migration, the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the UK, hit a record 906,000 in the 12 months to June 2023.

The Prime Minister annnounced the extra funding for Kyiv alongside fresh sanctions against Vladimir Putin 's 'shadow fleet' carrying illicit Russian oil.

The pair spoke for an hour yesterday at US president-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

Catherine Meyer was last week found to have breached harassment rules with her behaviour towards both Lord Dholakia and Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy.

Since entering No10, Sir Keir has travelled to the US, Germany , France , Italy , Ireland, Belgium, Samoa, Hungary , Azerbaijan , Brazil , the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus.

The Reform UK leader issued a new demand for the Government to abandon its deal to hand sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

The County Councils Network (CCN), which represents 37 county and unitary authorities, delivered a withering verdict on a revised local government finance settlement.

Downing Street said the Prime Minister and Mr Trump discussed the Ukraine war and the Middle East crisis during their phone call.