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First-time London MPs Georgia Gould, Sarah Sackman and Miatta Fahnbulleh have been promoted to junior minister roles

Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t…

Keir Starmer said it was wrong for shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry to suggest that Labour’s plan to add VAT to private school fees would lead to larger class sizes in the state sector

Chris Philp says PM has apologised for missing events, and will be ‘back bouncing around the campaign trail’

Shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry suggested on Sunday that ‘it would be fine if we have to, in the short term, have larger classes’

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said pupils would be impacted by ‘Labour’s politics of envy’.

Using schools for polling stations must have its perks. Plus, sympathy for the enslaved girl heckled by Plato

Foreign secretary’s use of Embraer Lineage 1000 follows £348,000 bill for James Cleverly’s eight-day trip in similar plane in 2023

Crime crackdown plan also gives victims of rape and sexual assault the right to specialist support throughout justice process