MPs voted this evening to back a Labour motion to cancel the £20 a week cut in universal credit, but it was something of a hollow victory, as the motion is non-binding. The uplift, which was brought in to support families during the pandemic, will b...

We were joined by Sarah Hardy, from the North Brewing Company, and Mark Rhodes, Professor of Financial Economics at Leeds Beckett University.

There are signs of hope of a post- pandemic bounceback. But it’s not been without challenges – will today’s inflation hike be another one? It comes as the government presses ahead with its plan to end the £20 a week uplift to unive...

Shamima Begum, who left east London as a schoolgirl to join the Islamic State, has appealed to be allowed back into Britain to appear in court, she insists, to refute claims that she’d been involved in terrorism. Speaking from a camp in Syria, ...

A bizarre war of words has broken out between the prime minister and his chief medical adviser on the one hand and Nicki Minaj on the other. 

Amanda Spielman is chief inspector of Ofsted.

The announcement that vaccines are going to be offered to 12 to 15-year-olds in schools like this one, the John Smeaton Academy in Leeds, has divided opinion.

There has been some very good news out today about the UK's jobs market, with the number of people in work rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. 

We speak to Owen Baily, a former gambling addict who is now a peer support worker with the National Problem Gambling Clinic.

As the government prepares to redraw the laws on gambling for the first time in 16 years, families whose lives have been devastated by gambling addiction are fighting for much tougher regulation.

Andrew MacDonald is Professor of Virology at the University of Leeds.

We were at the prime minister's press conference this afternoon.

Plan A to combat the feared autumn and winter rise in Covid infections seems pretty straightforward

With just seven weeks until the critical COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the government is yet to pass its flagship post-Brexit green legislation.

We all need a pay rise, the TUC said today as their annual conference got underway. Not just because we might like it, but because it will boost demand in the economy and reward people after more than a decade of falling living standards.