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UK may have ditched its right-winger with bad hair but terrible policies remain Joyce McMillan

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

How Keir Starmer got his knighthood

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

A general view of the Houses of Parliament in London, England.

Scottish Questions from the Houses of Parliament in Westminster

Chris Law. Picture: PA Archive

Chris Law MP

MP for Dundee West

Speaker intervenes as SNP MP calls Labour and Tories ‘two cheeks of same arse

Andy Burnham

UK heading for most unpleasant election in our lifetimes, says Andy Burnham

Tom Stocker, Partner and Corporate Crime specialist at Pinsent Masons

Corporate fraud is the new priority focus in the fight against the fraud pandemi...

Mhairi Black

Mhairi Black: Bad faith actors in the trans rights debate

Penny Mordaunt appeared on the Fringe on Sunday

Penny Mordaunt: SNP independence approach based on ‘real bile and hatred’

Stephen Flynn MP, the SNP's Westminster leader. Image: Stefan Rousseau/Press Association

SNP's Flynn under investigation for use of parliamentary stationery

MP Margaret Ferrier. Picture: Roger Harris/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Recall petition sparked by suspension of Ferrier due to close on Monday

Keir Mather

Who is Keir Mather? The new Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty

SNP MP Mhairi Black. Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament

Mhairi Black reveals she has bomb proofing and panic alarms at her home

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Margaret Ferrier able to return to Westminster

Margaret Thatcher praised the actions of the SAS in ending the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980. But politicians also need to be able to talk about allegations of wrongdoing made against the UK's Special Forces (Picture: PA)

Politicians must be able to probe war crimes claims against Special Forces

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Boris Johnson allies ran campaign to undermine privileges committee, report says

The UK's only resident killer whales are based in Scotland, but experts fear they are destined to die off - blaming a build-up of toxic chemicals in their systems for their failure to produce offspring. Picture: Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust

Call to help end whale hunts as Scotland's pod of orcas predicted to die out

Clive Myrie. Picture: PA/Ian West.

Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten after Boris Johnson lying joke

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report

Boris Johnson has stepped down as MP but his rise to the top was aided by a very dysfunctional parliament, writes Stewart McDonald MP. Andrew Boyers/PA Wire

Boris was no anomaly but a product of a poor political system - Stewart McDonald

Boris Johnson and Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross calls Boris Johnson’s actions over partygate ‘unforgivable’

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

Boris Johnson was found to have lied to MPs over partygate.

Boris Johnson lied to MPs over partygate and misled parliament, report finds

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson

Which Tory MPs have resigned triggering a by-election?

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Rutherglen. Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire

Starmer tells SNP and Tories not to 'dither and delay' over Ferrier by-election

Keir Starmer with Kirkcaldy's Labour candidate Wilma Brown during a visit to local High Street businesses. Picture: Robert Perry/Getty Images

Ferrier vote delays as Starmer says he'd ‘relish’ by-election

Margaret Ferrier (left) on the campaign trail with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon in 2019, when she remained a SNP MP. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

By-election looms as ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier loses appeal against suspension

Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘snaps’ at Kemi Badenoch as pair lock horns in House of Commons

Watch the moment House of Commons Speaker ‘snaps’ at major Tory MP

Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, holding the Sword of State walking ahead of King Charles III during the coronation. Picture: Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Mordaunt: 'I took painkillers for King Charles III coronation'

The picture tweeted by SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn

Euan McColm: SNP is now a black comedy amid dread of what may come next

The SNP has until May 31 to have auditors in place.

SNP facing cliff edge on auditors with no extension available on deadline

Scotland’s First Minister has said it will be “challenging” to arrange an auditor to process the SNP’s accounts in time to meet the May 31 deadline.

Humza Yousaf: Finding auditor to meet SNP accounts deadline will be challenging

Stephen Flynn

Flynn admits SNP Westminster group could miss out on £1.2m if deadline missed

Alistair Jack and Ross Greer are in the midst of a fierce row.

Furious DRS row erupts as minister accused of 'categorically untrue' statements

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

Sunak under investigation over alleged failure to declare interest

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

Changes to the state pension age are common

Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

TikTok is the world's most popular app

TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Home secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of the Scottish Government of making "factually inaccurate" statements in the Commons. Picture: Andy Bailey/UK Parliament/AFP

Home secretary accused by Scottish Government of 'factually inaccurate' comments

Bag used by House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd to go on auction

The Commons Privileges Committee is set to hear from Boris Johnson this week amid claims he lied to Parliament over the partygate scandal.

When is Boris Johnson giving evidence? How to watch Privileges Committee

Former prime minister Boris Johnson refused to answer questions about his evidence on Tuesday morning.

Boris Johnson admits misleading Commons, but insists innocent mistake

Boris Johnson conceded in his evidence to the Privileges Committee that his statements to Parliament “did not turn out to be correct”, but insisted he corrected the record at “the earliest opportunity”.

Boris Johnson Partygate defence published - How to read dossier

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced the UK Government’s budget in the House of Commons - but what does it mean for the average Scot? Pic: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Here's what the Budget means for Scottish households

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries