Bridget Phillipson: “Every day of absence and lesson missed has a cost – and that cost falls hardest on our most disadvantaged pupils and…”

Kemi Badenoch's Tories held young people back and caused the welfare bill to spiral. To pretend she's suddenly on the side of young people is frankly insulting.

We live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days.

This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right, and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share.

Every Reform councillor, council candidate or party member found to have made such despicable comments must be thrown out of Reform UK immediately.