The UK elections watchdog is looking into whether Russia meddled in the Brexit referendum.

Gavin Williamson was today named as the new Defence Secretary after Michael Fallon dramatically quit the Government last night.

Ruth Davidson has said the “dam has broken” and it is time to clean up politics in the wake of the Westminster sex abuse scandal. 

Michael Fallon has said he had to quit as Defence Secretary over past misdemeanours - but insisted his behaviour was "acceptable" 10 years ago.

The Queen is ‘not happy’ at being expected to respond to a Commons debate on Brexit, it has been reported. 

The Liberal Democrats were dragged into the Westminster sexual harassment scandal last night as a former activist claimed she was told to keep quiet after being "touched up" by a fellow member.

Theresa May will today declare vehement opposition to anti-Semitism, saying Britain “will not stand for it”. 

Amber Rudd has issued a blistering rebuke to police chiefs, telling them they must focus on “cutting crime,” rather than “lobbying the Government for money”. 

Michael Fallon has dramatically resigned as Defence Secretary as the Westminster sex scandal claimed its first ministerial victim.

Ministers are under pressure to publish nearly 60 studies on the impact of Brexit after the Commons unanimously backed a Labour bid to have them released.

Hundreds of thousands more children will be pushed below the poverty line in the coming years by the Government’s freeze to benefits, a respected thinktank has said.

Michael Gove has insisted chlorinated chicken from the US will not be sold in the UK after Brexit - just hours after Liam Fox told MPs he had "no problem" with it.

​​Conservative MPs have hit back after their inclusion on a Westminster sex pest list, with one branding it "a form of harassment and intimidation".

Arron Banks has insisted claims that he worked with the Russians to help fund the campaign to take Britain out of the EU are "complete b*llocks".

Theresa May was repeatedly warned about Westminster sex abuse allegations three years ago, Labour MP Lisa Nandy has said. 

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The UK elections watchdog has launched a probe into controversial Brexit campaigner and multi-millionaire Arron Banks.

Liam Fox has said he has “no objection” to the British public being sold chlorinated chicken from the US after Brexit, arguing there are “no health reasons” to ban it.

Accusations of sexual assault and harassment in Westminster are as bad as the expenses scandal, a minister has claimed. 

Brexit has added millions of pounds to the Foreign Office wage bill due to the fall in the value of the Pound, campaigners have claimed.

The Government will be able to spend its £13bn foreign aid budget on British overseas territories hit by humanitarian crises, after changes to international rules agreed in Paris.

Plans to set a budget for Northern Ireland at Westminster have begun, although talks on resuming power-sharing are reportedly set to continue for another day.

Jeremy Corbyn has praised the “enormous bravery” of a Labour activist who claimed a party official told her to keep quiet about a rape allegation she made.

Theresa May has offered her support to the United States following last night’s terror attack in New York which killed eight people.

Theresa May has been hit by a fresh twist in the sexual harassment scandal after it emerged her right-hand man will be investigated over a claim of inappropriate behaviour.

A female staffer at Westminster has told how she was let down by parliamentary authorities after being attacked by an MP on a foreign trip.

The latest UK growth figures released last week offered the Chancellor a momentary reprieve from the mounting pressure around the forthcoming Budget. 

A Labour activist who claims she was raped by a party official has said she was encouraged not to report the incident because it could harm her career.

David Davis has admitted the EU will probably benefit more in the immediate aftermath of Brexit than the UK will.

Labour will stage a Commons vote in a bid to force the Government to hand over 58 reports into how Brexit will affect the UK.

The average British household may have lost more than £600 each because of the vote for Brexit, according to a leading thinktank.

Letting agents will be banned from charging sky-high fees to tenants under Government plans published today.

Up to 8,000 new Whitehall jobs are being created so the civil service can cope with Brexit, it has emerged.

Westminster is at risk of "navel-gazing" over the sexual harassment scandal which has engulfed parliament, according to a former Conservative Cabinet minister.

The number of peers sitting in the House of Lords should be cut by a quarter to 600, according to a landmark report.

Jeremy Corbyn and Gordon Brown are among the top Labour figures who today paid tribute to ex-MPs Candy Atherton and Frank Doran after they passed away.