We spoke to Mark Serwotka, the General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union which represents Border Force staff among others and asked him if he was concerned the British public would tire of strike action, not least over Christmas?

Our political editor Gary Gibbon joined us from Westminster.

Passport control staff at Britain's main airports are to go on strike for eight days over Christmas and New Year. 

Only yesterday the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was tweeting a welcome to the news of the government's U-turn on onshore wind development. But she also warned that if it was meant to 'buy off' giving the green light to the Cumbria coal mine, it woul...

Mark Jenkinson, is the Conservative MP for Workington in Cumbria, the same region where the government has given permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria.

The government has given permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria, the first in the UK for 30 years. The controversial project has generated huge criticism.

Ukrainians are turning to the arts during a winter of war. Lindsey Hilsum meets the opera singers and ballet dancers of Kyiv, as the city looks for inspiration and respite from the fighting.

Kirstie Alley, the star of the long-running US comedy series ‘Cheers’ and some iconic movies such as ‘Look Who’s Talking’ has died after a short battle with cancer, at the age of 71.

Solar power is set to overtake coal power worldwide in the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency. Today it predicted the world will add as much renewable power in the next five years as it did in the previous 20.

In the United States, voting is underway in the crucial senate race in Georgia. After the midterm elections last month did not result in a clear winner, the contest between former American football star Herschel Walker and incumbent Democrat Raphael ...

Tory peer Baroness Mone has said she is taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords, to “clear her name” over allegations about her links to a firm awarded contracts for personal protective equipment during the pandemic. The news ca...

We’re joined by Conservative MP George Eustice, who was Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2020 until September this year.

Fatima is joined by Deanne Ferguson, from the GMB union, she was a Labour parliamentary candidate in 2019 and from London by Kate Nicholls, who is the Chief Executive of UK Hospitality.

Joining Matt is Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, the membership body representing NHS leaders.

The festive period was already delivering an advent calender of strikes involving nurses, postal workers, plus bus and railway staff. Now ambulance workers in much of England and Wales have promised to walkout on the 21st of December. The three union...