Rishi Sunak

There have certainly been some positive developments that would simply not have been possible if Labour hadn’t won the election.

Jon Trickett MP: Another year over. And a new one just begun

Drink driver Matthew Wootten crashes into the gates of the Prime Minister’s country house.

Watch: Drink driver smashes into gates of PM’s country house

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

Neil Kinnock falls over on Brighton seafront in 1983.

Funny political stunts gone wrong from elections past

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Rishi Sunak: Four men arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass

Just Stop Oil protesters have targeted multiple private jets at an airfield in Stansted after Taylor Swift landed her own private plane just hours before. (Credit: Just Stop Oil)

Watch: Just Stop Oil target Taylor Swift

Activists sitting by Stonehenge after it was sprayed orange (Photo: Just Stop Oil / Supplied)

Watch: Just Stop Oil 'paint' world-famous UK monument

Wakefield D-Day veteran Harry Birdsall speaking to Princess Anne at the Normandy commemorations last week which marked the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

Wakefield veteran describes 'very emotional' Normandy commemorations

(Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

How UK parties are approaching National Insurance ahead of election

Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe.

Watch: Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

What you need to know about the new Universal Credit rules

Under the Conservatives school budgets have been squeezed and the school curriculum has become far too narrow so teenagers who are better at technical skills, or sport or music, don’t get the chances they need.

Yvette Cooper MP: Give our young people their future back

Director Grant Walters at The Sports Shop in Kingswinford show off their St George's Cross transfer to apply to new England kit. A sports shop is selling St George’s Cross iron-on transfers for £4.95 - so fans can cover the controversial design on the new England football shirt.

Shop sells St George patch to cover rainbow flag on Nike's England kit

Jeremy Hunt will announce the 2024 Budget. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Budget 2024: Hunt cuts NI again and reforms child benefit
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Ralph Blackburn

Yvette Cooper MP meeting with students from Castleford Academy.

Yvette Cooper MP: Change can’t come soon enough

The UK has entered a recession

UK enters recession as economy shrinks

Wakefield Council’s cabinet members criticised the plan as they agreed to spend £12m on maintaining the district’s roads over the next 12 months.

Scrapped HS2 pothole funding ‘not enough’ to upgrade council road networks

XL Bullies will be banned from Februrary 2024.

XL Bully Ban: Everything you need to know as ban comes into place

Children aged two will recieve 15 hours of free childcare.

Free childcare scheme April roll out

The two motions will be considered at a full council meeting at 2pm on Wednesday.

Council to hold Gaza ceasefire debate

Labour has a plan that will move our country forward. Photo: Getty Images

Simon Lightwood MP: Labour has a plan that will move our country forward

Simon Lightwood MP challenged Rishi Sunak in Prime Minister's Questions

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak challenged in parliament over crime in Wakefield

Under Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Labour Party has changed. Labour is now the party of fiscal responsibility, we are the party of business, and we are the only party with a plan to make working people better off. Photo: Getty Images

People should not have to choose between heating and eating this Christmas

Round here, local groups are working hard to support each other.

Yvette Cooper MP: Not working to live but working to survive

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

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will give the autumn statement today - watch it live
Tom Morton

King Charles III reads the King's speech during the State Opening of Parliament. Photo: Getty Images

Simon Lightwood MP: The Conservatives have given up on governing

Rishi Sunak said allegations of a Tory MP committing multiple rapes are “very serious” and anyone with evidence should “talk to police”. (Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak urges victims of alleged rapist Tory MP to ‘go to police’

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

The UK has called for a temporary "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, to allow humanitarian aid to reach those in Gaza and to allow the release of hostages. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK calls for 'pause' in Israel-Hamas conflict but rejects ceasefire

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

Castleford will recieve £20 million in funding as part of the government's new 'levelling up' scheme.

Castleford to be given £20million funding by Government to 'level up' town

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

American XL bully dog

Xl Bully destroyed after child rushed to hospital following attack

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Rishi Sunak, jetting around in his private helicopter, doesn’t get it at all. Photo: Getty Images

Yvette Cooper MP: Still paying the price for crashed economy

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

The Prime Minister is reportedly "alarmed" by the ballooning costs of the HS2 [project amid rumours that his government may be about to announce that the Northern leg of the line will be scrapped. (Credit: Hollie Adams/PA Wire)

Rishi Sunak 'alarmed' by costs of HS2 project amid Cabinet split

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

An XL Bully was involved in one of the attacks, injuring a 15-year-old girl

American XL bullies 'to be banned by end of the year'

"Our NHS is 75 years old this year. My aunt remembers the days before our NHS when families had to pay to get the doctor round. We can’t go back to that. We need a proper rescue plan to restore our NHS so it can be our pride and joy in the future again too."

Yvette Cooper MP: Urgent action needed to rescue NHS

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS

Lucy Letby received a rare whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.

Criminals must face victims for sentencing after Lucy Letby’s no-show

Restyle app to make you look like doll ‘whitewashing’ people of colour

Downing Street hosts a reception for the GB Special Olympics Squad in the garden of 10 Downing Street. Back row: Jayne Cross (Coach), Brooke Lammas, Jordan Chandler, Rob Crosse, Jason Nicholls, Ellen Greenall Front: Lochlann Kaye (Coach), Thomas Shaw, Jacob Fairweather, Craig Williamson, Steve Bradley (Head Coach)

Wakefield Hockey Club members invited to meet PM following Olympics success

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are considering awarding pay rises to certain groups of striking workers. (Photo by STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Cabinet split over awarding striking workers 6% pay rise

Selby and Ainsty MP Nigel Adams announced on June 9 that he will stand down with immediate effect - triggering a by-election. Photo: Getty Images

Yvette Cooper MP: We need a General Election – now!

A three year old British girl is thought to be among those stabbed in the knife attack

British girl, 3 among those stabbed in knife attack in Annecy, France

Wegovy: What is the weight loss jab which GPs will offer on NHS

Lab tests have shown vapes confiscated from school students were mostly illegal, and had high levels of lead, nickel and chromium (Photo: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Government announces crackdown on vape adverts targeting children

International students who come to the UK will no longer be able to bring family with them except under specific circumstances in a government bid to bring migration down.

Many international students to lose right to bring family to UK