A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

MPs have accused the Government of a “business as usual” approach to criminality by Kremlin-linked oligarchs in the UK despite promises of a major crackdown following the Salisbury attack.

John Bercow's alleged comments about Commons leader Andrea Leadsom being "f****** useless" are "unacceptable", according to Theresa May.

A leading member of the Shadow Cabinet plagiarised Barack Obama in her acceptance speech after being re-elected last year, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Britain is to send hundreds more troops to Afghanistan after Gavin Williamson told Theresa May they are needed to tackle the growing threat posed by Isis.

Theresa May is set to appoint a raft of new peers in an attempt to stave off further Brexit defeats in the House of Lords.

John Bercow has been accused of calling Andrea Leadson a "stupid woman" following an angry Commons bust-up.

Theresa May is to publish fresh proposals for avoiding a hard border in Ireland in a last-ditch attempt to break the Brexit deadlock.

Parts of the Metropolitan Police are still "institutionally racist" and young black people continue to be victimised by officers, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said.

Chuka Umunna has criticised a close aide to Jeremy Corbyn after he ruled out any prospect of Labour backing membership of the European Economic Area.

The Government has announced a new consultation into banning the type of combustible cladding that was used on the Grenfell tower block.

Theresa May has been accused of "kicking the can down the road" after it emerged her flagship Brexit bill may not even be passed in time for the summer.

Tom Watson has renewed his war of words with Len McCluskey as he hit out at the union boss for urging Labour activists to oust MPs critical of Jeremy Corbyn.

Ministers have agreed to tell the EU that Britain is willing to stay in the customs union after 2021 - teeing up a fresh clash with Conservative eurosceptics.

Jeremy Corbyn is facing renewed pressure to shift his opposition to a Norway-style soft Brexit, amid reports that at least 70 MPs may be ready to defy him over the issue.

Labour has piled pressure on the Government after it emerged a review set up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is set to avoid proposing a ban on flammable cladding.

Tory ex-Cabinet minister Justine Greening last night took a damning swipe at her own party - saying it had not “connected” with British aspirations for more than 30 years.

The maximum stake on fixed odds betting machines will be slashed from £100 to £2 in a major blow for the gambling industry.

Calls for a House of Commons investigation into allegations of bullying against John Bercow have been blocked by MPs.

Labour has failed in a bid to force the Government to publish secret documents on their plans for a customs deal with the EU after Brexit.

The Lords have inflicted yet another humiliating defeat on the Government today – this time on post-Brexit environmental protections.   

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted that a Labour music festival will be a "huge success" despite slow ticket sales.

Support for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have been "underestimated", Emily Thornberry has claimed.

Councils across the country will be handed millions of pounds to replace flammable tower block cladding in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, Theresa May announced today.

The troubled East Coast rail line will be taken back into public hands, the Transport Secretary has announced today.

Jeremy Corbyn has urged Theresa May to “step aside” over her handling of the Brexit negotiations, as the Labour Leader and Prime Minister locked horns over future customs ties with the EU.

Labour's policy on Brexit has been thrown into fresh confusion after two shadow ministers said a Norway-style trading partnership is not "off the table".

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Many Windrush migrants who have been wrongly deported after getting caught up in an illegal immigration crackdown will now be “dead or destitute”, a prominent Labour MP has warned.

Theresa May has called for an inquiry into the "deeply troubling" deaths of scores of Palestinian demonstrators near the Israeli border.

Brits will be on hook for an extra £1.5bn in energy bills over the next fifteen years because of a bungled tweak to government policy, according to a new report by the public spending watchdog.

The directors of doomed construction giant Carillion were “too busy stuffing their mouths with gold” to save the firm from its spectacular collapse earlier this year, a hard-hitting joint report by MPs has said.

Ministers will finally reveal their plans for a customs arrangement with Brussels next month in a White Paper dubbed the Government's "most significant publication on the EU since the referendum".

A senior Cabinet minister has vowed to over-rule the Scottish Parliament after it voted to reject the Government's flagship Brexit bill - sparking a potential constitutional crisis.

A shocking 63 British citizens from the Windrush generation may have been wrongfully deported from the UK, Sajid Javid revealed today.

Labour is to stage a Commons ambush in a bid to force the Government to publish secret papers on its plans for a customs deal with Brussels after Brexit.