The number of people granted asylum by the Home Office jumped by more than a third last year, with 55,000 people given refugee status or similar permission to stay in Britain.
NHS spending has doubled in 17 years with "no impact" on the nation’s health, former health minister Lord Bethell has admitted, with deteriorating clinical outcomes and flatlining life expectancy.
It was a fiery PMQs today, with Kemi Badenoch on punchy form, pummelling Starmer for his recent failures and telling him at one point that his own MPs report Labour being called "the paedo defenders party".
New drilling in the North Sea will not bring down energy bills, Ed Miliband has claimed, despite the fact it would dramatically boost domestic supply and cut reliance on expensive imports of LNG.
Keir Starmer has paused his Chagos bill, which would surrender the islands to Mauritius and pay for the privilege, a Minister has confirmed, following Donald Trump's renewed attack on the agreement last week.
Labour has accused the Green Party of "manipulating" Muslim voters with campaign videos in Urdu telling Muslims to "punish Labour for Gaza" and stirring up hatred on the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election.
The BBC is in hot water after it aired the n-word during the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday despite a two-hour broadcast delay and Warner Bros "raising immediate concerns" and requesting its removal.
The Equality Act and other invidious diversity rules should be overhauled to save Britain £10 billion a year on "bloated" HR departments, a study from Policy Exchange has said.
Boys should be allowed to experiment and wear dresses at primary school, the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said, as she commented on new guidance that allows four year-olds to switch pronouns in school.
Oxford student Samuel Williams, who chanted "put the Zios in the ground" at a pro-Palestine rally in October, will not stand trial for another two years. Yet somehow Lucy Connolly was in court in under a month.
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