Alex Burghart

Conservative deputy leader Alex Burghart has described pensioners as a "special case" as he reaffirmed the party's commitment to the state pension triple lock

The FTSE 100 index ended down 177.73 points, or 1.7%

French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have welcomed Andy Burnham’s plan to unpick Brexit

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has registered gifts worth £8,177 covering travel and accommodation for a meeting with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Greece

Lord Wormald’s payout equates to around £2,000 for each day in his role as cabinet secretary

This comes after MPs forced ministers to publish over 1,400 pages of documents regarding his doomed appointment of Mandelson as US ambassador after the revelations about the closeness of his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

But as this quietly spoken back room political operator bobbed and weaved, his inquisitors on the foreign affairs committee didn’t land a knockout blow

Starmer’s right-hand man was considered the driving force behind Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador

Keir Starmer to face vote on Mandelson vetting scandal as key figures give evidence to MPs

The ageing Vanguard-class submarines, which carry the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent missiles, have suffered from repeated availability issues in recent years amid maintenance delays

A furious row erupted on GB News as Camilla Tominey and Labour minister Tom Hayes clashed over the latest development in the Peter Mandelson scandal

Opposition leaders demanded Starmer's resignation on Thursday after it emerged that US envoy Peter Mandelson was appointed despite having failed his security check

With those words to a London Metropolitan Police calls handler one evening last October, Morgan McSweeney, then chief of staff to UK prime minister Keir Starmer, kicked off the latest twist in the meandering saga of scrutiny over Peter Mandelson’s ill-fated appointment as ambassador to Washington

Downing Street officials have been ordered to hand over private messages on WhatsApp groups involving Peter Mandelson, as the investigation widens into his disastrous appointment as British ambassador to Washington

A new photo of former Prince Andrew and British diplomat Peter Mandelson spending time with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has emerged in the latest investigation files

The pay-off was just one of several damaging details reportedly buried in 147 pages of documents the Government had been ordered by MPs to hand over — showing a Prime Minister who received explicit written warnings about Mandelson's Epstein ties — and went ahead anyway

The unearthed clip was broadcast on Channel 4 News, just days after both were arrested on the same offence: suspicion of misconduct in public office

Virginia Giuffre accused Mountbatten-Windsor of raping her when she was a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim in London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2001

Files released by the US department of Justice appear to show the former prince forwarded UK government documents and other commercial information to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

The sighting comes just hours after Lord Mandelson received a letter from US politicians demanding he testifies before Congress

Ministers are under pressure to claw back a £50,000 payoff handed to Peter Mandelson when he was sacked as US ambassador over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

Labour’s King Rat Peter Mandelson has again cast his sulphurous odour of villainy around the palace, and contamination may drag a decent, well-intentioned Labour leader down with him

But the revelations around his apparent communication with Lord Peter Mandelson are among the most explosive, with potentially major implications for both the former cabinet minister and wider political sphere

On Tuesday police launched an investigation into Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office, following claims that he leaked market-sensitive information to the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein while a government minister

MPs have voted to remove a measure providing conditional immunity from prosecutions for Troubles-era crimes from the previous Conservative government's legacy act

It came as Health Secretary Wes Streeting — who is regarded by Mr Burnham’s supporters as his only credible opponent — was at the centre of an explosive new briefing row with No10