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The UK is to halt new arms sales to Turkey where the weapons could be used in the conflict in Syria.
Amber Rudd has said there is a "whiff of sexism" in the way Tory MPs are preparing to back Boris Johnson's Brexit deal after rejecting Theresa May's.
Labour has blasted police for imposing a ban on Extinction Rebellion protesters calling it a “grotesque overreaction and extremely worrying attack on basic civil liberties”.
A 37% year-on-year rise in hate crime against transgender people should be a “wake-up call" for ministers, campaigners have declared.
Boris Johnson has been given until midnight on Tuesday to thrash out a Brexit deal ahead of a crucial European summit.
Labour MP Rachel Reeves has slammed "deluded" Thomas Cook bosses after they refused to consider paying back their bonuses.
A new watchdog will ensure ministers are "held to account" if they fail to live up to the UK's climate commitments under plans being unveiled in a new Environment Bill.
Boris Johnson has been told that there is no time for him to strike a fresh Brexit deal before this week's crucial EU summit.
Ministers have been criticised after a review by the Government’s health watchdog found that falling staff numbers had prompted a “deterioration” in mental health services in England.
Jeremy Corbyn has accused ministers of a “blatant attempt” to suppress ethnic minorities, the poor and the elderly through their controversial voter ID scheme.
Labour MPs have told the party's chairman that they will not back calls for a snap election.
Boris Johnson will not resign as Prime Minister even if MPs reject his Queen's Speech.
Labour will re-introduce standing at top-flight football matches for the first time since Hillsborough next year if it wins an election.
John McDonnell clashed with Len McCluskey in the wake of a major shake-up of Jeremy Corbyn's office, PoliticsHome has learned.
Boris Johnson has sparked a furious backlash after vowing to push ahead with a new voter ID scheme despite accusations the plans will disenfranchise tens of thousands of people.
Legislation to deliver Brexit dominated Boris Johnson’s first Queen’s Speech as Prime Minister, which also had a strong law and order theme.
Boris Johnson has promised a new law to bring freedom of movement to an end after Brexit, in a Queen’s Speech packed with pre-election pledges.
Follow all the action from the State Opening of Parliament. What's being announced? How's it going down? And all the pomp and ceremony you can handle.
Sajid Javid will deliver his first Budget as Chancellor on 6 November - but only if the UK leaves the EU with a deal on 31 October.
Labour's plans to renationalise vast swathes of the UK economy would come with a "beyond eye-watering" £196bn price tag, a major business group has warned.
Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson should "step out of the sandpit" and focus on bringing down Boris Johnson's government, the SNP's Ian Blackford has declared.
Hopes of a Brexit deal being done in time for the UK to leave the EU at the end of the month are fading after Boris Johnson told Cabinet there is a "significant amount of work" still to do before an agreement can be reached.
Foreign criminals who breach their deportation orders by returning to the UK will be locked up for longer under plans to be announced in the Queen's Speech.
Splits among senior members of the Shadow Cabinet have burst into the open after Rebecca Long-Bailey said she could back a second EU referendum taking place before the next general election.
Priti Patel has said it would be “unacceptable” for Northern Ireland to be treated any differently than the UK in a new Brexit deal.
Jeremy Corbyn has refused to say he would stand down as Labour leader even if he loses the next election.
The wife of a US diplomat wanted over the death of a British teenager no longer has diplomatic immunity and can face prosecution, Dominic Raab has said.
A group of rebel Tory MPs have been accused of “sabotaging” Boris Johnson with a plot to force an extension to Brexit even if a deal is agreed.
Boris Johnson is to tell EU leaders “let’s finish this off” and deliver a new Brexit deal on Monday or agree to let the UK leave on October 31 with no agreement in place.
Fears Labour could be left bankrupt from the official investigation into anti-semitism have been voiced by members of the party’s top ruling body.
The Labour leader will say that coastal communities have been hit by "nine years of vicious austerity and Tory cuts" in a speech in Hastings on Saturday.
Cat owners could have to microchip their pets under government plans to clamp down on the number that go missing.
Boris Johnson has played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough on reaching a Brexit deal following the EU's pledge to "intensify" talks.
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called on Boris Johnson to meet the couple's five-year-old daughter after she returned to the UK after more than three years in Iran.
EU bosses have agreed to intensify talks aimed at agreeing a Brexit deal in time for a crunch summit next week.
John McDonnell has said that he and Jeremy Corbyn will resign from Labour’s top team if the party loses a snap general election.