Home Office figures expose the scale of the shoplifting epidemic sweeping the country as one Co op near Didsbury in Manchester puts cuts of meat in locked security boxes

   Rishi Sunak’s pledge to take Personal Independence Payments away from people who have anxiety and depression if he wins the next election is vindictive and cruel

   Of course people need guidance on good health, but it should be up to each individual what they do to their own body the same focus never seems to be on people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs’

   Lancashire Police has confirmed that it has received a letter detailing concerns about MP Mark Menzies following allegations he asked local Tory members for cash

   Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it has been ’incredibly difficult’ after husband Peter Murrell was charged by Police Scotland on Thursday night

   MPs backed the new Pet Abduction Bill, which would see cat and dog thieves jailed for up to five years, as it cleared its final hurdle in the Commons this afternoon

   The second reading of the State Pension Age Compensation Bill was due to take place today in the House of Commons, but it has now been pushed back by almost a month to May

   Downing Street said football authorities must explain how scrapping FA Cup replays benefits fans as fixtures between giants and minnows are ’part of magic’ of competition

   The tawdry Tory meltdown into criminality and chaos might be the best thing that could possibly happen, argues Fleet Street Fox

   Rishi Sunak has called for a shift in Britain’s sick note culture as he warns against over medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life and we want to hear your thoughts

   Rishi Sunak has vowed to take benefits away from people suffering from anxiety and depression and target Personal Independence Payments if he wins the next election

   Tory peer Lord Pickles said Boris Johnson has ’refused to be open’ about his relationship with Merlyn Advisors after meeting Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro with its boss

   Welsh Secretary David TC Davies was told off by BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce after branding Labour’s Bridget Phillipson a ’disgrace’ in a clash over the Rwanda policy

   In a major speech, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will claim Britain has a ’sick note culture’ and will announce plans to look at GPs no longer being the first port of call

   A poll by the National Foundation for Educational Research found primary schools were hardest hit by funding pressures, with of senior leaders relying on pupil premium cash

   Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan branded the findings ’stark’ and said the Online Safety Act will ensure social media bosses face prison if they fail to keep kids safe online

   Response times to reports of anti social behaviour have rocketed by since with a ’disturbing postcode lottery’, figures obtained by the Lib Dems reveal

   Keir Starmer will spell out plans to turbo charge house building by releasing sections of green belt land following the ’abject Tory failure to build the homes our country needs’

   I want to reclaim England and Englishness, said Caroline Lucas. To make it somewhere people born in England and people who have made England their home want to celebrate.

   Nicola Sturgeon’s year old husband Peter Murrell has been charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds after a police investigation into the party’s finances

   Ex subpostmasters said the Post Office should dismiss Rodric Williams after he admitted an email chain joking about postmasters’ concerns was ’top bants between mates’

   Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive and husband of the ex first minister Nicola Sturgeon, is understood to have been re arrested by Police Scotland

   Katie Fieldhouse, , a former Lady Mayoress of Fylde, said she received a call from local MP Mark Menzies at . am on December last year, in which he allegedly asked for , as he was locked in a flat with ’some bad people’

   The early results of the Europe Talks project are in and the refugee crisis is the issue most dividing us but there’s still time to have your say

   Senior child doctors have called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to strengthen the laws on smacking as they say ’grey areas’ mean parents can defend physical punishment