Thousands of Glasgow council workers face pay cuts in one of UK’s biggest fire-and-rehire plans

I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.

Badenoch says Tories want policies ‘for everybody’ as she defends plan to let millionaires get free childcare – UK politics live. Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham today On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam , the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June, when she was a frontbencher but not yet in the shadow cabinet, Lam was asked at a meeting with activists if she thought the pensions triple lock was sustainable..

The demands of Welsh devolution are simple: just give us what Scotland has | Will Hayward. Andy Burnham is a Westminster leader whom Welsh nationalists could finally work with - but only if he stands up to the devo-sceptics in UK Labour As I sat in the first Plaid Cymru conference since the party won the Welsh election and started leading the Welsh government, I heard things I had never heard before. I have been to a lot of Plaid conferences and not once have I heard people being really positive about a UK Labour leader. But there was no.

Daughter of MP murdered five years ago tells BBC politicians still at risk. Katie Amess questions if anything has changed to protect politicians five years after her father's death.

Courts backlog will fall despite scrapping of jury trial plan, minister says. Speaking to the BBC, the justice secretary vows to reduce delays in the system after scrapping plans from the previous government.

Badenoch unveils plan to end £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge' ahead of Tory conference. The Conservative leader tells the BBC the earnings threshold for government support stops people "working harder".