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The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

Sign up for the borough's youth parliament

Join Central Bedfordshire’s Youth Parliament to give young people a voice

More than 20,000 vehicles travel through Hockliffe village a day - Photo Google Maps

Hockliffe traffic chaos is making us ill says council

Keir Mather

Who is Keir Mather? The new Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Clive Myrie. Picture: PA/Ian West.

Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten after Boris Johnson lying joke

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

A privileges committee report into Boris Johnson and partygate has found the former prime minister ‘’deliberately misled’ parliament over his knowledge of parties which breached Covid-19 rules during the pandemic.

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson

Which Tory MPs have resigned triggering a by-election?

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Andrew Selous MP helping out on the rounds in Leighton Buzzard

MP goes to Parliament over 'utter failings' by Royal Mail in Leighton Buzzard

Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

A customer fills his petrol tank at a BP petrol station (Photo by Toby Williams/Getty Images)

Petrol sellers called out for 'unacceptable profiteering' by MP in Parliament

Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘snaps’ at Kemi Badenoch as pair lock horns in House of Commons

Watch the moment House of Commons Speaker ‘snaps’ at major Tory MP

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

Sunak under investigation over alleged failure to declare interest

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

Changes to the state pension age are common

Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

TikTok is the world's most popular app

TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Bag used by House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd to go on auction

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled a number of plans during his Spring Budget 2023 announcement from the House of Commons on Wednesday.

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

Former Speaker of the House, Betty Boothroyd. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Iconic former speaker of House of Commons Betty Boothroyd dies aged 93

Therese Coffey says ‘cherish turnips’ amid UK tomato and veg shortage

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

Andrew Selous MP has raised the issue of horses dying after close proximity to fireworks

MP Selous raises fireworks risk to pets in House of Commons

Ex-Tory MP Neil Parish resigned after being caught watching pornography in the House of Commons twice.

Disgraced porn-watching ex-MP may stand again at next general election

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take "bold and radical" action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

Handout photo taken with permission from the twitter feed of Extinction Rebellion of protesters who have superglued themselves around the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons chamber, as they call for a Citizen's Assembly. Picture date: Friday September 2, 2022.

Westminster reports reveal deliberate damage inside Commons

Number 10 refused to speculate on future migration policy. Credit: Getty Images

What time is PMQs on today?

Rishi Sunak is facing MPs on his fourth PMQs on Wednesday.

How to watch this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions live

Rishi Sunak will face PMQs once again on Wednesday. Credit: Getty Images

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt. (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Autumn Statement 2022: What Jeremy Hunt’s budget means for your pocket

Autumn Statement 2022: What time is Jeremy Hunt’s budget and how to watch it live online and TV

How to watch Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement

Rishi Sunak pictured delivering a speech at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow last year. PIC: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (centre) during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons this week. Columnist Susan Morrison is not getting too attached to the UK's new leader - for now, at least. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

PMQ’s get undeerway at 12pm today

Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman addresses delegates on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference. Credit: Getty Images

Home Secretary plans to crack down on protests with new bill

The Chancellor today unveiled his mini-budget to the House of Commons. Credit: PA

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s stamp duty cut: What does it mean?

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks at her first Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Photo credit UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor /PA Wire

Energy Bill Plan: what help was announced by Prime Minister Liz Truss

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown plan for England (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson announces roadmap out of lockdown for England- what the PM said

The government is said to be prioritising safe socialising with loved ones over reopening hospitality and non-essential shops. (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the rules on mixing with other households outdoors in England - as loc...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce his roadmap out of lockdown plans to MPs in the House of Commons today (Photo by Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Watch Boris Johnson reveal his plan to exit lockdown live from Westminster

This is when Boris Johnson will make his roadmap announcement - and what he migh...

What we know so far about the upcoming announcement about the route out of England's lockdown (Photo: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson to unveil ‘cautious’ roadmap towards lifting England’s lockdown - ...

Boris Johnson will soon receive the crucial data which decides the UK’s route out of lockdown (Photo by Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson will soon receive the crucial data which decides the UK’s route ou...

A national ‘clap for Captain Tom’ will take place tonight - when and how to get involved (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

A national ‘clap for Captain Tom’ will take place tonight - when and how to get ...