Michael Gove

Tory candidates being investigated: Craig Williams and Laura Saunders. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe/Parliament/Laura Saunders for Bristol North West

Explainer Tories investigated over allegedly betting on election date

Michael Gove promised to ban no-fault evictions. Credit: Getty/Kim Mogg/Adobe

Campaigners accuse Gove of banning no-fault evictions 'in name only'

Why should voters believe Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt. Credit: Getty/Mark Hall

I've been waiting 5 years for the Tories' housing reforms Ralph Blackburn

Michael Gove is the Housing Secretary. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Explainer U-turn expected over landmark leasehold reform to abolish ground rents

The war on smoking is merely a common-sense health policy - but even if it was as war, it's not one worth opposing

I'm fed up of right-wing nutjobs declaring war on wars Tom Morton

Campaigners have accused landlord MPs of trying to "gut" the Renters Reform Bill. Credit: Adobe/Mark Hall

Tory landlord MPs are trying to 'gut' rental reform legislation

NationalWorld: time to end £1m chaos payments.

Time to end chaos of £1 million pay-outs to ministerial merry-go-round Ralph Blackburn

Grenfell Testimony Week is being held in London this week. Credit: Getty/Mark Hall

Explainer Cladding provider fails to send staff to Grenfell Testimony Week

MPs are voting on a bill which would block public bodies from boycotting countries, like the BDS movement against Israel. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe/Getty

Explainer Labour says 'anti-BDS bill' threatens possible two-state solution

Michelle Mone during her interview on BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Michelle Mone and Gove under fire as PPE deal controversy unfolds

Baroness Michelle Mone. Credit: PA

Michelle Mone: Gove says he cooperated with PPE MedPro probe

Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove.

Gove: Cabinet Office had become "government's nanny" before Covid hit

A study claims smarter people voted remain. Credit: Kim Mogg/Adobe

Brexit: cleverer people were more like to vote remain, study claims

A mock-up of what the MSG Sphere would have looked like in east London. Credit: MSG Sphere.

Las Vegas-style sphere venue for east London rejected by Sadiq Khan

Nadine Dorries has unveiled shocking allegations in her new book ‘The Plot’. (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s seven crazy claims Nadine Dorries makes in her new book

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Net migration unlikely to fall to pre-Brexit levels until 2030. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe/Getty

UK net migration unlikely to fall below pre-Brexit levels, experts say
Non-EU work and long-term study emigres will keep net migration around pre-Brexit levels from 2030 onwards, experts have said.
Ralph Blackburn

Who is David Meller? - Conservative Party donor handed top Government trade job

Explainer Who is David Meller? - Tory donor handed top Government trade job

Labour to vote against Tory plans that will ‘sacrifice’ UK rivers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour blocks ‘reckless’ Tory plans that would ‘sacrifice’ UK rivers

Scrapping water pollution laws to build new houses ‘nail in coffin’ for UK rivers. (Photo: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Mark Barrow)

‘Act of lunacy’: UK to scrap laws protecting rivers to build houses

New housing reforms to be announced by Housing Secretary Michael Gove are expected to focus on building in citing rather than "concreting over the countryside". (Credit: Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak promises that new housing reforms will focus on cities

Rishi Sunak university: Full list of degrees studied by MPs in Cabinet including Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove

Full list of university degrees studied by MPs in government’s Cabinet

MPs overwhelmingly back Boris Johnson Partygate report

Credit: Kim Mogg / NationalWorld

Boris Johnson urges publishing of Privileges Committee report

Boris Johnson accuses PM of ‘talking rubbish’ over honours list row

Labour plans to change how land is valued to encourage housebuilding

Charging journalists to attend the Tory conference isn’t on Tom Hourigan

Campaigners angry after government scraps its animal welfare bill
Ministers said the legislation was being extended “far beyond” its original remit
Tom Hourigan

Labour will force a vote on abolishing leaseholds in England and Wales after the government backtracked on its pledge to abolish the them. Credit: PA

Labour to force vote on ending ‘feudal’ leasehold system

Sir Keir Starmer says Labour will allow green belt housing where it does not impact on beauty of areas (Photos: Getty/Adobe Stock)

Exclusive Eight Labour frontbenchers have opposed building on green belt

Converting homes into short-term holiday lets would require planning permission under government plans to stop residents being “pushed out of cherished towns” (Photos: Getty)

Government proposes new rules for short-term lets in tourism hot spots

Drug policy researcher Volteface has compiled a list of every MP who has admitted using drugs, as the government poises to crackdown on antisocial behaviour (Photos: Getty and Adobe Stock)

The UK politicians that have admitted using recreational drugs

Gove refuses to confirm if Euston will be HS2’s final London stop

Nitrous oxide gas canisters littering the street. Picture: PA

Laughing gas to be banned by government in clampdown

Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan, and Steve Rotheram, mayors of Manchester, London, and Liverpool, are among those who have signed the letter calling for a rent freeze in England. Credit: Getty Images

City mayors join calls for ‘immediate’ rent freeze in England

Michael Gove has told developers that they must commit to fixing fire safety defects in high-rise buildings or face being banned from the housing market. Credit: Kim Mogg / NationalWorld

Developers must sign post-Grenfell fire safety contracts or face ban

NationalWorld analysis found that Wales is the biggest beneficiary of the second round of levelling up funding per capita, while London had the lowest amount of cash per person. Credit: Kim Mogg

Explainer Wales is the big winner in Levelling Up funding - how regions compare

Michael Gove said the levelling up agenda will seek to “change the economic geography of the country” (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Levelling Up’ plan and what it pays for as £2bn funding announced

Michael Gove has provoked anger from environmental campaigners (Photo: Getty Images / PA)

Climate activists slam Gove’s ‘shameful’ approval of new coal mine

Awaab Ishak tragically died after suffering a respiratory problem caused by prolonged exposure to mould. Credit: PA

Funding stripped from housing association where two-year-old died

Exclusive: Sunak and other MPs eligible for 5-figure severance payouts

The government’s plan to ban no-fault evictions could be scrapped. Credit: Getty Images

Liz Truss commits to banning no-fault evictions

Liz Truss is set to speak at Conservative Party Conference having had her premiership deeply damaged in recent days (image: Getty Images)

Liz Truss speech: when PM will address Conservative Party Conference

New PM will make decision on Cumbria coal mine as plans delayed

Exclusive: government resignations could cost £250k in payouts

Michael Gove attends the weekly Cabinet meeting at Downing Street on 5 July (Photo: Ian Vogler - Pool/Getty Images)

Why was Michael Gove sacked? Boris Johnson’s reasons for firing

The Bank of England has predicted that inflation will top 11% in the autumn (PA)

Inflation needs to be tamed before tax cuts, ministers suggest

New plans have been unveiled to create a fairer private rental sector.

Plans unveiled to create fairer private rental sector in England

The green heart-shaped symbol is used to remember victims of the Grenfell fire (Photo: Getty Images)

The signficance of the colour green on the Grenfell anniversary

Katharine Birbalsingh is the Government’s social mobility tsar.

Stop focusing on ‘rags-to-riches’ stories, says social mobility tsar

‘No emergency budget’ despite cost of living crisis and PM’s comments

A woman holds a baby as she leaves among other refugees at the border point between Romania and Ukraine (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)

Homes for Ukraine: how UK’s refugee rehoming scheme will work

A large number of refugees have been fleeing Ukraine after Russia invaded the country. (Credit: Getty)

How to support Ukrainian refugees as conflict continues in region

Developers could ‘shield themselves’ from cladding costs, Gove warns

Foreign companies might avoid paying cladding and fire safety costs

The PM is due to announce a long-term Covid plan this month (Composite: Kim Mogg / JPIMedia)

The major Covid rule change that could cost you £500 from next week

Michael Gove has published the Government’s White Paper on Levelling Up, which aims to tackle regional inequality (Photos: Getty)

Levelling Up: reheated policies or a bold new agenda?