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Crisis-stricken Rishi Sunak faced a fierce grilling over the ongoing general election betting scandal - and his 'anger' seemed to boil over in a searing exchange with one journalist

Since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022, 49,709 people have reached the UK by small boat despite him making stopping the crossings a key pledge

"Desperate Tories have also pushed advertisements on social media that claim Keir Starmer’s victory would be welcomed by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin"

Jonathan Ashworth, who has become one of Labour's faces of the election campaign, said the party is braced for an onslaught of mud flinging at Keir Starmer

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who is supposed to be the Tory numbers man, got confused about Rishi Sunak's flagship National Service plan for teenagers - and the age of his own son

Startling analysis of training costs suggests the non-military part of Rishi Sunak's National Service plan alone could cost more than the £2.5billion he's allocated for it

Shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth has warned that the Conservative manifesto doesn't add up as the party has already spent money saved from welfare cuts

Labour accused the Tories of being in chaos as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps suggested the National Service military placements for 18-year-olds would last just 25 days

Wannabe Tory MP Adam Gregg, who has rubbed shoulders with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, has withdrawn from the election race – saying the 'events were of their time'

Magistrate Sam Trask, expected to 'respect the dignity of all' in his judicial role, once boasted his favoured bra size measuring technique was 'hand sizing them by feel'

The Prime Minister brazenly claimed Treasury officials had costed up Labour plans. But a letter from the department's top civil servant showed this wasn't the case

Overnight polling by Savanta found 44% of viewers thought Keir Starmer came out on top in the ITV General Election debate, with 39% thinking Rishi Sunak won

The Conservatives have unveiled plans for the return of National Service ahead of July's General Election and despite previous claims that Premier League stars would have to serve, they have now said otherwise

The Conservatives have unveiled a radical plan to re-introduce National Service should they win the upcoming General Election and Premier League stars could be forced to sign up

Labour has attacked Rishi Sunak's National Service plan, pointing out that players including Jude Bellingham, Wayne Rooney and Marcus Rashford were called up to tournaments aged 18

The age-related personal allowances for over-65s were phased out by austerity Chancellor George Osborne back in 2013 in a move described as a Tory 'granny tax'

Jonathan Ashworth said he doesn't want to see British weapons used in an assault on the city of Rafah. David Cameron stopped short of calling for arms sales to Israel to be halted

Labour campaign supremo Jonathan Ashworth warned older voters the state pension is 'not safe in Tory hands' after the Conservatives vowed to abolish national insurance

Our feathered friend made an eggs-traordinary comeback as Tory ministers attended a Cabinet meeting after Rishi Sunak refused to name the date of the general election

Campaigning ahead of May’s local elections, Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth said the gong for Mohamed Mansour proved the PM is only interested in “saving his own skin for a bit longer.”

Rishi Sunak was challenged to explain how he'd find an estimated £46billion a year to scrap National Insurance Contributions (NICs), but didn't rule out NHS and pension cuts

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was picked up three times from a field near his home amid accusations of using RAF helicopters as "Britain's most expensive Uber"

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty holds a £619million stake in Infosys, which saw an almost 50% increase in its public sector work last year, figures have releaved

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was criticised for agreeing to a 'deeply distasteful' wager with Piers Morgan over the crisis-hit plan to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda

Ms Truss, who was the least popular British Prime Minister since records began, will launch a group named “Popular Conservatism” this week