Exclusive: Tory MPs blamed rising rents for increased claims, while government imposed freeze on poorest tenants
Rachel Maclean said the narrative being pushed by some MPs and the property sector is ‘wrong’
The government is ‘confident’ in its decision to hand police new powers – despite scathing review of the Met Police
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads the notorious Wagner army, sought to attack the BBC two months before the Ukraine invasion
Thames Water has apologised for chasing a tenant who was recently homeless for his landlord’s bills
The government wrote off emissions equivalent to 400,000 passengers flying from London to Sydney and back in one year
Ethnic minority hospital cleaners say they were denied NHS contracts and paid less than the majority-white NHS staff
Expansion of the free childcare scheme is supposed to help struggling families, but there are still barriers for trainees
Exclusive: Populists seeking to undermine Refugee Convention may be emboldened by UK plans, say EU politicians
Adam Bychawski’s work on the dark money fuelling climate denial in the UK beat some big journalistic beasts
Exclusive: A mining firm tracked a Northern Irish 72-year-old’s social media and gathered information about his appearance
Exclusive: Liberty, Unison and Mermaids among groups sending ‘distress signal’ as UN begins living standards probe
