Anahita Hossein-Pour

Sajid Javid has said police chiefs "have to be listened to" over their calls for more cash to tackle knife crime - just days after Theresa May insisted there was "no direct correlation" between rising crime and budget cuts.

A bid to unseat an MP jailed for perverting the course of justice has been triggered.

London’s top police chief Cressida Dick has rejected Theresa May’s denial that slashed police numbers and violent crime are not linked.

Labour has hit out at the Government after it emerged local councils have been forced to sell off libraries and playgrounds to tackle funding shortfalls.