Apprenticeships are partly funded by money raised through taxes, as well as through an “apprenticeship levy” paid by bigger businesses with an annual wage bill of more than £3m. Those firms, as well as smaller businesses, can then use that money to train apprentices. Labour’s plans for what it has …

The Conservative government has pledged £1bn a year in a bid to increase the number of GP appointments in the UK. The Tories say they would build both GP surgeries and community diagnostic centres if they were re-elected to government. The party wants to build 100 new GP surgeries and …

Rosario Lonegro was only 20 years old when he entered a Catholic seminary in Sicily as an aspiring priest preparing to be ordained. But while he was there he fell in love with another man and his superiors demanded that he undergo conversion therapy intended to erase his sexual preferences …