The UK’s postal services minister says the government is to push ahead with legislation to mass exonerate people wrongly convicted in the Post Office...
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When nine million people watch a TV drama that then provokes a national outpouring of anger over the postmasters’ fight for justice, a prime minister...
Police chiefs have accused senior politicians of regularly trying to “interfere or influence” their operations. In a letter to Home Secretary...
A committee of MPs has recommended the government appoint a new chair for Welsh-language broadcaster S4C. The chair of the Welsh affairs committee has written...
The cost of building HS2 between London and Birmingham could reach nearly £67bn – almost double an early projection for the entire project to the north...
The prime minister has said a new law will be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are “swiftly exonerated and...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he is “bitterly disappointed” after a legal ruling gave the green light to a gas drilling project in his Surrey...
The deputy chair of the Conservatives’ One Nation faction is appealing to his centrist colleagues to be “prepared to compromise” when the...
More than 30 Tory MPs are poised to back amendments aimed at “toughening” Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill when it returns to the Commons next week...
Taylor Swift tickets are easier to get than an NHS dental appointment, ministers have been told, as they were urged to grasp the scale of the crisis in access...
Israel “might have taken action” in breach of international law in Gaza, the foreign secretary has said during a tense exchange with MPs on the...
Horizon scandal: Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE ‘with immediate effect’
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells will hand back her CBE with immediate effect amid the fallout of the Horizon IT scandal. The scandal led to the...
The Post Office IT system scandal is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history – but who are the key figures in the story? Paula Vennells...
Simon Case, the head of the civil service, has returned to work after more than two months on sick leave. The cabinet secretary, who has not publicly disclosed...
The father of a two-year-old boy who died after exposure to mould at his housing association flat has backed proposals to bring in a strict time frame for...
Rishi Sunak began 2023 hounded by the contamination of the Johnson and Truss premierships, and kicks off 2024 weighed down by what happened on David...
