Politics

The government has promised to tackle obesity and improve mental health support, but there is no sign of long-promised legislation to reform adult social care.

The government has set out its legislative agenda for the new parliamentary session in the Queen's Speech today.

David Cameron told the Treasury's top civil servant it was "bonkers" that a financial services firm he was lobbying for had been denied access to government-backed COVID loans.

The government has committed to introducing legislation to ban conversion therapy, the practice of trying to change someone's sexuality or gender identity.

Lex Greensill, the billionaire founder of the now bankrupt finance firm Greensill Capital, is to be questioned by MPs later in relation to the ongoing Westminster lobbying scandal.