One thousand and one days, from conception to age two – these are the days which lay “the foundations for lifelong emotional and physical wellbeing”. So says the government, which has published its review of early years care in Engl...

The NHS is to spend £95 million on improving safety in maternity services in England, this follows the scandal at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. The money will be used to boost the numbers of midwives and doctors in hospitals and also to...

Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker is a member of the Commons Liaison Committee, which is responsible for questioning the prime minister about policy.

MPs have renewed the government’s emergency coronavirus powers for another six months. The laws give ministers the power to render it a criminal offence to meet in groups or to travel abroad during the lockdown. There was a large rebellion by C...

We spoke to Immigration Minister Chris Philp.

The home secretary has set out plans to change the asylum system so refugees are assessed on how they arrive in the UK.

We spoke to Tony Reeves, the chief executive of Liverpool City Council, and began by asking him, when he took office in 2018 and saw how money was being spent, was he aghast?

Commissioners have been parachuted in to take over planning and property decisions in Liverpool after an inspection identified "multiple failures" and "mismanagement" by the city council which have cost taxpayers millions.

The basic aspects of local democracy in Liverpool aren't functioning: that, this programme understands, is one of the damning conclusions of an inspection into the city council due out tomorrow.

 A former vicar who bullied and psychologically abused men and boys was protected by a church culture where he was “untouchable”.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she would have resigned if she had been found to have broken the ministerial code, but that she would not be "bullied" out of office.

A year of pandemic has had a catastrophic effect on the British economy. Unemployment has jumped by almost 700,000 and trillions of pounds have been knocked off the country's output as companies struggle to survive.

 Boris Johnson admitted today there are many things he would have done differently during the pandemic, as his chief scientist warned that Covid will be with us "for the foreseeable future".

The nation fell silent at noon today to remember all those who have died during the pandemic, a year after the first UK lockdown was imposed.

The size of the army is to be reduced by thousands of troops over the next four years, as part of what the government is calling the most significant defence review since the end of the cold war.