Children’s social care services are in “crisis” with three in four councils having overspent their budgets last year, local authority leaders have warned.

TV chef Jamie Oliver has launched a scathing attack on Theresa May over child obesity, claiming the Prime Minister does not “give a f*ck” about the issue.

Tech firms like Google and Facebook could face eye-watering fines if they breach the privacy of their users under a newly proposed law.

New sign-ups for Universal Credit could end up struggling to make ends meet over Christmas, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

A former SNP MP who was forced to resign the whip amid allegations of fraud has demanded an apology from Nicola Sturgeon after being cleared.

The Government acted unlawfully by refusing people the right to appeal against decisions to deny them benefits, three judges have found.

Ireland's prime minister has hit out at Britain’s hard Brexiteers for failing to offer ideas on a future border between the UK and Ireland despite having had ‘ample time’.

Jesse Norman MP, minister of state at the Department for Transport (DfT), has announced that the Government will make £75 million of funding available to local authorities in England for essential road maintenance works.

Nicky Morgan has called on HMRC to address long-running problems with its website that have left some parents unable to register for free childcare provision.

A former Labour frontbencher has given his backing to a poll on reuniting Ireland, calling it a "realisable and sensible option".

The Government has announced the launch of the £45 million Land Release Fund to help local authorities “release some of their unused or surplus land for housing”.

Donald Trump has said a second Scottish independence referendum would be “terrible” and compared the initial vote on separation to going “through hell”.

A former SNP MP will not face criminal proceedings over allegations of mortgage fraud after the case against her was dropped due to insufficient evidence.

More than a million women are £32 a week worse off with many pushed into income poverty under the latest rise in the state pension age, an independent thinktank has said.

A Labour councillor has been suspended from the party after she branded naked Pride marchers “paedophiles”.

Almost a quarter of small building firms are having to pass the costs of soaring material prices onto consumers in the wake of the EU referendum.

Ireland will not help Brexiteers design a hard border between itself and the rest of the UK, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

Westminster politicians belatedly turning their attention to Northern Ireland will soon realise how tricky the Brexit border issue will be, writes Dods Political Consultant Andrew McQuillan.

Diane Abbott has been accused of “smearing” Theresa May after tweeting an image suggesting the Prime Minister wanted to “curb lesbianism”.

Philip Hammond has said a sea border between Great Britain and Ireland would not be an acceptable post-Brexit arrangement.

MIMA welcomes the Building Research Establishment (BRE) cladding tests instructed by DCLG and is fully cooperating with both DCLG and the BRE.

Dublin ministers are pushing for the Irish Sea to become the post-Brexit border with the UK in a fresh headache for Theresa May.

Millions of school pupils could go hungry over the summer holidays, Labour has claimed.

The Government has quietly U-turned on plans to offer free breakfast to all primary school pupils in a fresh embarrassment for Theresa May.