For the first time in 101 years, a nationalist party is in the majority in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin said the country was entering a “new era” as they overtook the DUP.

Is it fair to abandon teacher assessment in favour of exams for students who’ve already been through so much disruption? The Department for Education says it has recognised their situation by putting in place adaptations to “support the s...

Across England and Wales, pupils are revising for their A-Level and GCSE exams. Always a stressful time, the pupils facing exams this year have already had to deal with school closures, remote learning, time off with Covid and, for some, dealing with...

Inequalities should be put to the forefront of the Covid inquiry to highlight the unequal impact the pandemic had on different parts of society, according to its chair. It’s one of several new recommendations Baroness Heather Hallett made to th...

Government ministers arriving in Stoke for the Cabinet meeting had to fend off more questions about lockdown breaches in Downing Street and Whitehall after the Met Police announced they have now issued more than 100 fines. That’s 50 more Fixed ...

We sat down with the chancellor in Stoke. We put it to him that just a few days ago we were told by the prime minister that we’d need to grow our way out of this crisis, but that today’s GDP figures show we can’t even do that. We as...

Given the gloom over rocketing fuel bills and rising inflation, it can be no surprise that families are tightening their belts. Now it’s starting to hit the economy – which shrank 0.1% in March. The cabinet met in Stoke-on-Trent today, with t...

Rebekah Vardy has spent the whole of day two of her libel trial against Coleen Rooney on the witness stand.

We spoke to the MP Kevin Hollinrake, and asked him how he felt about the Home Office ignoring his reservations about the planned location of an asylum seeker processing centre at a former RAF base in his constituency.

A council in North Yorkshire is considering taking legal action against the Home Office over plans to house an asylum seeker processing centre at a former RAF base in the village of Linton-on-Ouse.

A Home Office minister has refused to rule out the possibility that refugees from Ukraine or Afghanistan could be deported to Rwanda under the government's new policy. 

Police in Bristol say they fear a 15-year-old girl who went missing from her foster home two weeks ago may have been abducted.

Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns is the prime minister’s special representative to the United States on the Northern Ireland Protocol – he joined us from Washington DC.

Boris Johnson has been warned by both the US and the EU that he should not unilaterally rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol which the UK agreed after Brexit, as ministers consider whether to bring in legislation which would override parts of the dea...

We spoke to Fabrice Pothier, former director of policy planning at Nato.