Exclusive: Senior Conservative backbencher Sir Charles Walker, MP for Broxbourne, announces he will stand down at the next election.

Rising food and fuel prices are already stretching many household budgets. 

Children are being sexually exploited by organised networks in all parts of England and Wales in the "most degrading and destructive ways", a damning report has found. 

Some of the messages are so offensive they cannot be published, references to rape and violence, racism and homophobia.

More storm force winds gusting up to 90 miles an hour are expected to sweep through northern Britain this evening, after Storm Malik battered parts of the country leaving two people dead. 

The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said new legislation will be unveiled this week to widen economic sanctions against Russia, declaring "there will be nowhere to hide for Putin's oligarchs". 

We spoke to Robert Halfon MP, who's chair of the Commons Education committee, and began by asking him how, given it was known throughout lockdown children were disappearing from school, the problem has been allowed to get worse.

Tens of thousands of children are likely to have been largely absent from school in England since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report. 

Boris Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak have insisted that the £12bn hike in national insurance will go ahead. 

A man and a teenage boy have been stabbed to death in Doncaster after what police described as an "altercation" outside a pub. 

We spoke to Caroline Slocock, who was private secretary to two conservative Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Dal Babu, a former metropolitan police chief.

A number of Conservative MPs have joined opposition calls for Sue Gray's report into allegations of lockdown breaching parties in Downing Street to be published in full after Scotland Yard said they wanted certain sections to be redacted.  

Hunting is a multi-million pound industry. People pay handsomely to hunt grouse, pheasants and other game.

MPs have backed a bill that would give British Sign Language legally recognised status in the UK. 

Hundreds of thousands of former students in England will have to pay more on their loans after April.