A study carried out by the National Centre for Social Research has found the public’s trust in politicians is at its lowest level since records began in 1973.

The Conservative Party has launched its 76-page manifesto with a promise to lower national insurance further and abolish stamp duty altogether.

Labour says it will unblock the planning process to get 14,000 extra prison places built, even if that means bypassing the local planning system.

The Liberal Democrats have promised to extend the National Health Service to the world of personal care, paid for by more taxes for banks and the very wealthy.

A prosecutor has shown a murder trial jury footage of a video call which they say a Bangladeshi restaurant worker made to his wife’s lover as he killed her.

King Charles III led an 80th anniversary ceremony to remember the British servicemen who lost their lives in Normandy on D-Day.

The chairman of the Conservative Party, Richard Holden, was put on a shortlist of one for the vacant Tory stronghold of Basildon and Billericay.

The permanent secretary to the Treasury has written a letter of clarification after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested Labour would raise taxes by £2,000.

Labour has picked six members of the National Executive Committee and several officials from trade unions and think tanks to be parliamentary candidates.

Asian hornets are gradually moving further north and experts say they pose a major threat to indigenous species of bees.