The number of children living in poverty is set to hit a record high by 2022 unless ministers drop their plans for further welfare cuts, a leading think tank has warned.

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson is no longer being invited to attend the committee set up to decide the party's Brexit policy.

Scores of live music venues face closure unless ministers step in to slash their soaring tax bills, Labour has warned.

A Labour MP has apologised after claiming that a new Independent Group of MPs could be receiving funding from Israel.

A protester has been charged with harassment after an incident involving Conservative MP Anna Soubry outside Parliament last month.

Labour bosses have been accused of trying to stitch up the process to replace seven MPs who quit the party yesterday.

Greg Clark has said it is “unacceptable” that businesses do not have clarity on Britain's post-Brexit trade arrangements with just weeks left until the UK leaves the EU.

John McDonnell has backed Tom Watson and said the Labour leadership should do more to tackle anti-semitism in a bid to prevent more MPs quitting the party.

Britain faces the "catastrophic prospect" of a no-deal Brexit because of the "selfishness" of some politicians, a top group of manufacturers has warned.

More Labour MPs are thinking of quitting the party in the wake of the breakaway by seven backbenchers, Jeremy Corbyn has been warned.

Theresa May has been urged by four of her own Cabinet ministers to rule out the possibility of a no-deal Brexit by the end of the month or face a wave or resignations from the Government.

Derek Hatton has been readmitted to Labour more than three decades after being booted out for being a member of the far-left Militant faction.

Angela Smith has been forced to apologise after she used a racist slur just hours after she quit Labour to join a new bloc of independent MPs.

After weeks of speculation, seven Labour MPs dramatically quit the party today in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Their journey to the exit door was a slow crawl peppered by numerous flash-points.

Tom Watson has launched an outspoken attack on "hard left" Labour members after seven MPs quit the party to sit as independents.

Chuka Umunna has urged MPs from across the Commons to split with their parties and join the new movement he launched today with fellow ex-Labour figures.

Seven MPs have left the Labour Party to sit in the House of Commons as independents. PoliticsHome has the full resignation statements from Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker, Ann Coffey, Mike Gapes and Chuka Umunna.

The seven Labour MPs who have quit to form an independent bloc in Parliament should resign and test their support in by-elections, party insiders have said.

Seven Labour MPs have dramatically quit the party to set up a new bloc called 'The Independent Group', as they took aim at Jeremy Corbyn's handling of anti-semitism and Brexit.

Councils could be forced to collect food waste bins every week under fresh plans to overhaul Britain's record on rubbish outlined by the Environment Secretary.

Two more Conservative MPs - including a serving minister - are to face deselection votes led by Brexiteers in the coming weeks, it has emerged.

A leading Labour backbencher has warned that the party is set to "splinter" as speculation mounts that some of its MPs are on the verge of quitting.

Jeremy Corbyn has led tributes to Labour MP Paul Flynn after he died at the age of 84.

A powerful committee of MPs has accused Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg of shirking leadership over fake news and disinformation on the social networking site.

A minister has vowed to defy his own government by backing a Commons bid to rule out a “dangerous” no-deal Brexit.

A Cabinet minister has risked angering anti-EU Tory MPs by admitting Theresa May might have to ditch a promise to re-open her Brexit deal.

Labour MPs who quit the party in protest against Jeremy Corbyn could install the Tories in Government for a decade, John McDonnell has warned.

A former interim Labour leader has urged anti-Jeremy Corbyn MPs said to be on the brink of quitting the party to think again.

Philip Hammond will not visit China in the coming days amid reports that Beijing pulled out after Gavin Williamson threatened to deploy a warship in the Pacific.

Almost a dozen peers have been punished over claims of bullying or harassment over the past six years, it has emerged.

Former Labour vice chairman Michael Dugher last night revealed he is set to quit the party, saying it has become "institutionally anti-Semitic".

Theresa May has urged her warring Tory MPs to unite and warned them “history will judge us all” if the party makes a mess of Brexit.

Ministers have called on the Bank of England not to choose a white person as the face of the new £50 note in a bid to improve the representation of black and minority ethnic people in Britain.

Britain is on "the wrong side of the law" by continuing to sign-off arms exports for Saudi Arabia to use in the bloody war in Yemen, ministers have been warned.

Labour has come under fire after it emerged that a member's claim that the "Jewish community plans to attack" the party was not deemed to have been anti-semitic under its complaints process.

A Labour government overhaul of the universities sector would mean institutions could no longer fall into bankruptcy, Angela Rayner will say.