Liz Bates , Political Correspondent

He’s trying to save Christmas from a pandemic lockdown, but is it too late for Mr Johnson to hang on to public trust?

The pressure is mounting on Boris Johnson as senior Tories questioned his leadership after the party’s shock defeat in the North Shropshire by-election.

In England, last night’s announcement of Plan B restrictions does, in theory, mean that celebrations are still allowed.

As we head into another Christmas in the shadow of Covid restrictions, the row over last year’s lockdown, and whether No 10 aides broke the rules, is hitting the headlines just days before voters in North Shropshire go to the polls in a by-election. 

As the row over whether a Christmas party was held at Downing Street last year, footage broadcast on ITV News has shown Number 10 officials joking about a “business meeting with cheese and wine” with no social distancing.

Our Political Correspondent Liz Bates spoke to the Justice Minister Victoria Atkins about domestic homicide earlier this week.

The government says it will shortly publish a new cross-departmental strategy on domestic violence, focusing on crimes which mainly affect women and girls.

The Labour Party’s biggest trade union backer Unite has said it will cut back on its political donations to the party, in what could appear to be an effort to distance itself from Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

An independent investigation has found that the former head of the Prince of Wales’ Foundation co-ordinated with so-called ‘fixers’ over an honours nomination for a Saudi billionaire. 

One of the positive consequences of the pandemic was that many rough sleepers were brought in off the streets and offered emergency accommodation.

We spoke to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about the migrant crisis taking place at home and across Europe.

The government has touted its announcements on high-speed rail as “one of the biggest single acts of levelling up of any government in history”. But how is the levelling up project going?

The Conservatives have been urged to investigate allegations against the Prime Minister’s father Stanley Johnson after two women accused him of touching them inappropriately.

The government is facing a backlash from some Conservative MPs in northern England ahead of an expected announcement to scrap part of the flagship HS2 high speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds.

For too long the menopause has been treated as a “dirty little secret” surrounded by taboo. Now, thanks to a campaign led by the Labour MP Carolyn Harris, the government has agreed to set up a menopause task force and cut prescription charges in England for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). As she welcomed the move,…