Angela Rayner insisted the Government was not expecting backbenchers to go against traditional party values amid a looming revolt over the welfare Bill set for a Commons vote next week.

The fragile ceasefire has given rise to cautious hope for longer-term peace even as Tehran insisted it will not give up its nuclear programme.

One free go at a driving test might encourage learners ‘to only go for it when they really thought that they were going to pass it’, MPs heard.

Major housebuilders cannot be relied upon to achieve the Government’s target of building 1.5 million new homes, a housing expert has said, as he criticised a “failed monopoly” in the sector.

Mali Smith, 66, said she has not heard from the Foreign Office since registering for the repatriation flights last week.

The 19-year-old was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car driven by American national Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton in 2019.