Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt during their visit to Sunderland in 2024 to support a multimillion-pound project to develop one of Europe's largest film-making complexes.
Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Pictures of Prime Ministers meeting Wearside and South Tyneside people

Commuters walk along a packed platform after a single train arrived during the morning rush hour, at Waterloo Station in London on April 8, 2024, as train drivers strike over pay. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

North missed £140bn of transport investment during last government

Dua Lipa.

Dua Lipa the youngest person on under 40s Sunday Times Rich List

Drink driver Matthew Wootten crashes into the gates of the Prime Minister’s country house.

Watch: Drink driver smashes into gates of PM’s country house

Some of our MPs appear to hand their brains in at reception when they come to power. (Image created by AI)

'Good ideas from the Government appear thin on the ground'

The NHS have 'ad' enough of TV peddling fast food to kids.

RICHARD ORD: When a Nanny State can be a canny state

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

Neil Kinnock falls over on Brighton seafront in 1983.

Funny political stunts gone wrong from elections past

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Rishi Sunak: Four men arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass

On reflection, Monkey Tennis could be a vote winner.

Monkey Tennis just might sway undecided voters

Just Stop Oil protesters have targeted multiple private jets at an airfield in Stansted after Taylor Swift landed her own private plane just hours before. (Credit: Just Stop Oil)

Breaking Watch: Just Stop Oil target Taylor Swift

Activists sitting by Stonehenge after it was sprayed orange (Photo: Just Stop Oil / Supplied)

Breaking Watch: Just Stop Oil 'paint' world-famous UK monument

(Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

How UK parties are approaching National Insurance ahead of election

Warm your hands and you've got my vote...

RICHARD ORD: It's time politicians rubbed us up the right way!

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes gave a new voice to first-hand accounts of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy by Allied troops in June 1944 (Picture: BBC/Wall to Wall Media Ltd/Justin Dowling)

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes is a must-watch for a disappearing Sunak
It seems that Rishi Sunak has apologised for having an early dart from the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.
Philip Cunnington

Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe.

Watch: Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne has criticised the Government for allowing water companies to discharge waste into rivers and the sea.

KATE OSBORNE mp: This Government expects us to literally swallow its crap

South Tyneside MPs Emma Lewell-Buck (left) and Kate Osborne.

South Tyneside MPs react to Rishi Sunak calling a general election

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

What you need to know about the new Universal Credit rules

Emma Lewell-Buck, the MP for South Shields in the House of Commons. Mrs Lewell-Buck raised the issue of child poverty to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during PMQs. Photo: Parliamentlive.tv.

South Shields MP brings up child poverty issues in Parliament

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne.

MP ‘concerned' over scale of Labour losses at South Tyneside Council

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne.

Jarrow MP calls on government to end the ‘Gay Tax’

You drive me vape. Picture: Adobe Stock

RICHARD ORD: Rishi Sunak wages war on the fog-gobblers

Director Grant Walters at The Sports Shop in Kingswinford show off their St George's Cross transfer to apply to new England kit. A sports shop is selling St George’s Cross iron-on transfers for £4.95 - so fans can cover the controversial design on the new England football shirt.

Shop sells St George patch to cover rainbow flag on Nike's England kit

Jeremy Hunt will announce the 2024 Budget. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Budget 2024: Hunt cuts NI again and reforms child benefit
Follow NationalWorld's live blog with the latest news, updates and analysis from the 2024 Spring Budget.
Ralph Blackburn

The UK has entered a recession

UK enters recession as economy shrinks

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne.

Jarrow MP calls for Rishi Sunak to apologise over transgender comment

XL Bullies will be banned from Februrary 2024.

XL Bully Ban: Everything you need to know as ban comes into place

Children aged two will recieve 15 hours of free childcare.

Breaking Free childcare scheme April roll out

Former West Boldon postmaster Christopher Head hopes that this is now the "beginning of the end" of the Horizon Post Office scandal.

Ex-postmaster hopes for the 'beginning of the end' as new law promised

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Exhausted migrants in Kent. Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images

Breaking Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ruled unlawful

Rishi Sunak said allegations of a Tory MP committing multiple rapes are “very serious” and anyone with evidence should “talk to police”. (Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Sunak urges victims of alleged rapist Tory MP to ‘go to police’

Former Health Minister Matt Hancock. Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

The Government’s response to the pandemic was one of absolute dysfunction

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

Breaking NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

The UK has called for a temporary "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, to allow humanitarian aid to reach those in Gaza and to allow the release of hostages. (Credit: Getty Images)

Breaking UK calls for 'pause' in Israel-Hamas conflict but rejects ceasefire

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions on his one year anniversary in office. Photo by James Manning/PA Wire

KATE OSBORNE MP: We need a General Election now before the Tories do even more d...

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

Breaking UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

Breaking SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool with his hands covered in glitter after a protester ran onto the stage. Picture date: Tuesday October 10, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

KATE OSBORNE: How Labour will heal the country after 13 years of Tory chaos

'Sorry miss, but are you old enough to be smoking that cigarette?'

RICHARD ORD: I've seen the future... it's hover boots and fag ratting!

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

Breaking A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

American XL bully dog

Breaking Xl Bully destroyed after child rushed to hospital following attack

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Breaking Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Breaking Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

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RICHARD ORD: Braverman on the warpath... is there an election looming by any cha...

The Prime Minister is reportedly "alarmed" by the ballooning costs of the HS2 [project amid rumours that his government may be about to announce that the Northern leg of the line will be scrapped. (Credit: Hollie Adams/PA Wire)

Breaking Rishi Sunak 'alarmed' by costs of HS2 project amid Cabinet split

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Breaking Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Breaking Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Liz Truss

Breaking Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

An XL Bully was involved in one of the attacks, injuring a 15-year-old girl

American XL bullies 'to be banned by end of the year'

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS

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