Politics

Government looking at decoupling electricity and gas prices to bring down bills

Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at unhitching electricity prices from gas in a bid to bring down household bills.
First five NHS trusts to be placed in special recovery programme named

Five NHS trusts with "deep-rooted challenges" will be the first to be placed in a new recovery programme, the health secretary has announced.
'A declaration of war': How councils are resisting one of Labour's core objectives

Councils are ignoring explicit instructions to approve planning projects from ministers - as the scale and cost of their resistance to development is revealed for the first time.
Rachel Reeves takes back control

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Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle demands justice for family of defrauded pensioner Joan Green

It is "outrageous" that a convicted fraudster tracked down by Sky News in Tenerife is still on the run, the Speaker of the House of Commons has said.