Jackie Long explains why the number of people receiving Universal Credit has doubled since the start of the pandemic, and asks what the ending of the uplift could mean, amidst rising costs of living and worries about a long winter ahead.

Their music was the soundtrack to the post-punk movement that began in the late 70s - the fight against racism, against war and apartheid, and the bleak reality of unemployment and social inequality.  

Thousands of patients in England are set to benefit from the first treatment for sickle cell disease for two decades.

The £20 weekly uplift to universal credit, brought in at the start of the pandemic, will officially be scrapped tomorrow, on the very day Boris Johnson gives his keynote speech to conference. 

While the police are struggling to restore trust over the Sarah Everard murder, officers also came under scrutiny today at the inquest into the deaths of four young gay men murdered by the serial killer Stephen Port. 

One in three babies stillborn after being cared for at two hospitals in Wales might have survived were it not for serious clinical mistakes, according to a major review. 

The businesses who came to this conference with worries and complaints about labour shortages got their answer from the prime minister today.  

We spoke to Policing Minister Kit Malthouse, and started by asking if he had full confidence in the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick to deliver on the findings of the inquiries.

With the country's biggest police force beset by concerns about its policies and culture, the government is setting up an inquiry into "systemic failings" at the Met in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder. 

We spoke to Sebastian Payne, who is Whitehall editor for the Financial Times, and Kate Andrews, who is the economics editor for The Spectator.

Almost a fortnight after long queues began forming at many petrol stations around the country, army personnel have been drafted in to drive tankers and boost supplies. 

We talked to the former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir Peter Fahy, and to Paige Kimberly.  

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says she will launch an independent review of the force after the murder of Sarah Everard

We spoke to the Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi

Faced with an economy battered by the pandemic and an uncertain future, is that kind of rosy confidence realistic?