Paul McNamara , Senior Political Correspondent

It’s the housing scandal that refuses to go away.  No, not the chronic shortage of housing in Britain, but the question of which house Angela Rayner lived in some ten years ago and whether she broke electoral law.

Next month, voters will head to the polls in the local elections and Rishi Sunak will face another by-election test in the marginal constituency of Blackpool South. 

We spoke to the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and began by asking her what she thought of the government’s national insurance cut which comes into effect on April 6th.

A conservative MP has apologised for handing over colleagues’ phone numbers to a man he met on a dating app. William Wragg said he was manipulated into passing along the private information after he’d shared intimate pictures of himself.

Channel 4 News has been told that officials in the Department for Business and Trade have threatened to stop working over UK arms sales to Israel.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under growing political pressure from opposition parties to stop selling weapons to Israel. 

It’s been another momentous Good Friday for Northern Ireland.

The Conservatives stole two Labour policies to fund tax cuts in their budget. And now Labour has kicked off its local election campaign with some rather familiar-sounding promises.

The number of migrants who have arrived in the UK so far in 2024 after crossing the Channel has reached a new record high for the first three months of a calendar year.

Public satisfaction with the NHS is at the lowest level ever recorded, partly due to the problems in getting a GP appointment and long waits for hospital treatment.

Rishi Sunak has been forced to carry out a mini-reshuffle after two ministers resigned from the Government today. The Skills Minister Robert Halfon unexpectedly quit his job this afternoon and said he will stand down as MP for Harlow at the general election. 

We’re joined from Downing Street by our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara.

The government should apologise – and pay compensation – for failing to communicate changes to the state pension age to women born in the 1950s. That’s according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, which spent five years investigating claims by the Women Against State Pension Inequality group – also known as Waspis.

The government has put the UK on what it hopes will be a path to becoming a world leader in the fight against smoking-related diseases. It has introduced its Tobacco and Vapes bill that will mean that the legal age people can buy cigarettes will be raised by one year every year, so anyone born…

Foreign governments will be banned from owning British newspapers and magazines under plans that could scupper the sale of the Telegraph to a UAE-backed consortium.