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Boris Johnson has insisted in his evidence to the Privileges Committee that he did not lie to Parliament as he “hand on heart” believed that no rules had been broken at Number 10. Credit: Kim Mogg / NationalWorld

Boris Johnson's support dwindles to his last remaining lapdogs Nick Mitchell

Council tax bills will be rising across England in April.

Revealed: the areas with the most expensive and cheapest council tax

Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan will find out who has won the SNP leadership election on 27 March. (Credit: Getty Images)

SNP leadership election: how to watch the results of contest

Humza Yousaf in profile ahead of SNP leadership election results

Four senior Tories take ‘second jobs’ worth £500k per year

A new plan which would make harassing someone on the basis of their sex a specific criminal offence is now one step closer to becoming law (Photos: Adobe Stock)

Plan to make sex-based harassment a specific offence clears Commons

Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf have begun trying to woo SNP members to choose them as the next First Minister of Scotland. (Credit: Getty Images)

SNP leadership election 2023: who is favourite to win?

King Charles visit to France has been postponed. Picture: NationalWorld Graphics Team

King Charles could visit France in ‘early summer’ after trip cancelled

New £900, £300 and £150 cost of living payments will start to be issued from spring (Composite: Mark Hall / Adobe)

Cost of living payments from April as millions to get up to £1,350

MPs have voted to accept the Stomont brake section of Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework Brexit deal. (Credit: Getty Images)

MPs vote for ‘Stormont break’ despite Johnson and DUP resistance

Is this the end of Boris Johnson’s career? Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

Analysis Is this the end of Boris Johnson’s political career?

The Windsor Framework will amend part of the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol. (Credit: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

What is in the Windsor Framework? Main points explained

Half the Tory MPs standing down at next election have ‘second jobs’

Boris Johnson has received £6 million since leaving No 10

Nicola Sturgeon visits the Ferguson Marine shipyard in 2015 with the then owner Jim McColl (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Holyrood report criticises Sturgeon's handling of ferries project

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Nicola Sturgeon: 10 charts showing First Minister’s legacy

People sit in the Red Lion pub in London as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving evidence on Partygate is shown on the TV on 22 March 2023 (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

‘I deprecate the term’ - Johnson dismisses ‘Kangaroo Court’ claims

Calls for transparency around Jeremy Hunt’s Economic Advisory Council

Boris Johnson has insisted in his evidence to the Privileges Committee that he did not lie to Parliament as he “hand on heart” believed that no rules had been broken at Number 10. Credit: Kim Mogg / NationalWorld

Boris Johnson: key moments of ex-PM’s partygate evidence explained

Boris Johnson is being questioned about partygate at the Privileges Committee. Credit: PA/Kim Mogg

As it happened: Boris Johnson questioned by MPs about partygate

Boris Johnson faces televised hearing over partygate scandal. (PA/Getty/ Graphic by Kim Mogg National World)

Boris Johnson faces televised hearing over partygate scandal

The government's new plans to tackle illegal Channel crossings could cost £9billion in the first three years, a refugee charity has warned. (Credit: Getty Images)

Government's illegal migrant plans 'could cost £9bn in three years'

Conservative MP calls for Met Police to be abolished following review

Offenders convicted of crimes under the Modern Slavery Act have in some cases walked away with only a fine. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

‘Shockingly slim chance at justice’ for victims of modern slavery

Millions of people live in fuel poverty in England and Wales. (Image: Adobe/NationalWorld)

Revealed: the 18 worst fuel poverty ‘hotspots’ in England and Wales

A government adviser on food issues has quit the role after five years, hitting out at the failure of the Conservative Party to rein in the junk food industry. Photos: Adobe Stock

Food tsar blames Tory inaction on obesity as he quits

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Boris Johnson prepares for one last performance - cartoon

Millions of households in England and Wales are in fuel poverty. (Image: NationalWorld)

Over 1m families in extreme fuel poverty - worst hit areas revealed

Regions outside London to get almost £60m in arts and culture funding

Home Secretary Suella Braverman tours a building site on the outskirts of Kigali during her visit to Rwanda (Photo: PA/Stefan Rousseau)

Suella Braverman under fire for ‘lack of compassion’ in Rwanda visit

Calls to end asylum outsourcing as private firm’s profits boom to £34m

Workers are £11,000 worse off per year due to 15 years of wage stagnation, a think tank says (Photo: Getty Images)

Stagnating wages leaving workers £11,000 worse off per year

Home Secretary Suella Braverman tours a building site on the outskirts of Kigali during her visit to Rwanda, to see the houses being constructed to potentially house deported migrants from the UK. Picture date: Saturday March 18, 2023. Credit: PA

Braverman’s asylum plans would bar 45,000 children from refugee status

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (left) and Richard Ratcliffe (right) visit Vahid Beheshti on Day 23 of his hunger strike. Credit: Twitter

Hunger strike protester will ‘give whatever price to be heard’

Laura Kuenssberg interviews Prime Minister Liz Truss on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Explainer Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: who are the guests this week?

Nicola Sturgeon votes with her husband Peter Murrell in December 2019

Nicola Sturgeon says SNP chief exec was right to resign from role

Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker leaves his home in London on Friday before him being standing down was announced.

Explainer Why Gary Lineker will not be on Match of the Day tonight

Most Britons do not believe the latest Budget will make a big difference to either their families, or the country, but the proposed policies have seen to number of people intending to vote Tory climb.

Most do not believe new Budget will leave UK better off, poll finds

PC Mary Bettley-Smith (L) hit Dalian Atkinson (R) after he’d been tasered. Picture: PA

PC who beat Dalian Atkinson after he’d been tasered keeps her job

Households are being urged to reapply for energy support vouchers (Photo: Adobe)

Households urged to reapply for £67 energy support vouchers

Royal Mail accused of ‘unacceptable incompetence or cluelessness’

Charges brought in under 1 in 50 modern slavery cases - a record low

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Budget: electric vehicle uptake ‘sabotaged’ by Treasury policies

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran for six years (images: PA/Adobe)

Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - and why was she detained in Iran?

Calculate whether you will benefit from the expansion of free childcare hours in in England (Image:Adobe/NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Use child’s birthday to see free childcare entitlement

People in regions like the North will be frustrated too by the pace of change (Image: Mark Hall / NationalWorld)

Analysis Will the Budget level up the UK? It's a step when we needed a leap

Jeremy Hunt delivered his first Budget as Chancellor on Wednesday 15 March (image: Adobe/ Getty Images/ PA)

Explainer What the Budget means for your money - from childcare to energy bills

The East Midlands and Wales are among the regions and nations that have seen the biggest rise in economic inactivity. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe)

The UK regions worst hit by rise in economic inactivity

Jeremy Hunt will be giving his first Spring Budget as Chancellor. Credit: Getty

Budget as it happened: 30 hours of free childcare for under-5s

Economists give their verdict on Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 Spring Budget. Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

Economists on the Budget: ‘money for motorists, but not for nurses’

The UK’s fiscal watchdog warns households will therefore feel the pinch more than at any point since 1957 (Photos: Getty/Adobe Stock)

OBR warns UK households could suffer huge drop in living standards

Childcare costs for under twos have increased by 13.1% in England since 2018. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Regions where parents have seen the biggest rise in childcare fees

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Lights switched off on the London Eye during Earth Hour. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Explainer What time is Earth Hour and what should you switch off for it

Screen Babble: Weekend Watch

Screen Babble: Weekend Watch: Succession season 4 and Yellowjackets S2

It is the last time that regular estimates of coronavirus are being published, as the long-running infection survey – dubbed the “envy of the world” for its success in tracking the virus – has been halted. Credit: Kim Mogg

Final Covid-19 data shows infections in England at highest in 2023