Gang leaders, corrupt police officers and companies selling small boat equipment for Channel crossings could face having their assets frozen and being banned from travel to the UK in efforts to curb the people-smuggling trade..

A long-term commitment to the triple lock on pensions is not in the scope of the resurrected Pensions Commission, Liz Kendall has said..

David Lammy has joined other foreign ministers in condemning the Israeli government for depriving Gazans “of human dignity” as they called on the war to “end now”..

A 10-year-old boy who died in a bus crash while returning from a school trip to a zoo has been named by police..