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Alain Tolhurst is Chief Reporter at PoliticsHome and host of The Rundown podcast each week.
Boris Johnson has told Tory MPs he is “close to the summit” on a Brexit deal but it “is still shrouded in mist”.
Boris Johnson has been warned by the DUP that they still cannot support his Brexit plans, less than 48 hours before a crunch EU summit.
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”.
Labour will re-introduce standing at top-flight football matches for the first time since Hillsborough next year if it wins an election.
Legislation to deliver Brexit dominated Boris Johnson’s first Queen’s Speech as Prime Minister, which also had a strong law and order theme.
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Jeremy Corbyn has refused to say he would stand down as Labour leader even if he loses the next election.
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.
Boris Johnson has not ruled out fighting an election backing a no-deal Brexit, Downing Street has suggested.
Boris Johnson plans to get round the law requiring him to ask for a Brexit extension by sending a second letter to Brussels saying he does not want one, said Andrea Leadsom.
Boris Johnson has told moderate Tory MPs that he will not fight the next general election on a pledge to deliver a no-deal Brexit.
John Bercow is a “playground bully” who has made the country “un-governable” according to the MPs who want to replace him.
Hopes of a new Brexit deal being agreed between the UK and EU have been all-but killed off after Angela Merkel told Boris Johnson his new plan is unacceptable.
The UK would withdraw security co-operation from EU countries which support a Brexit delay, a senior Number 10 official has warned.
Nobody knows what Boris Johnson means when he says he can both obey the law and take the UK out of the EU without a deal, but at some point he will have to explain how they marry up.
Labour MP Stephen Hepburn has been suspended by the party over an allegation of sexual harassment.
Boris Johnson says he will “personally” call on Donald Trump to send a US woman wanted over the killing of a teenager in a car crash back to the UK for investigation.
Boris Johnson will ask the EU for an Brexit delay if he fails to get a deal within the next two weeks, government documents have confirmed.
Tom Watson has been urged to quit as an MP over his support for the discredited claims of a VIP sex abuse ring in Westminster.
The EU has given a given a cautious welcome to Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan but warned there will still “some problematic points”.
With no new policy, no new message and no new jokes, what exactly was the point of Boris Johnson’s party conference speech?
Sajid Javid has hinted that he could scrap inheritance tax in the Budget.
A Tory MP has been sent home from his party’s conference after he was involved in a “totally unacceptable” altercation with staff at the event.
Ministers have been heavily criticised after the number of homeless deaths hit a record high.
Boris Johnson has suggested that allegations about his personal conduct have been motivated by people opposed to his policies on Brexit.
The National Living Wage will rise to £10.50 an hour for all workers over the age 21 within five years, Sajid Javid has announced.
Sajid Javid is to unveil plans to boost road networks, bus services and the availability of high-speed broadband across the country.
Downing Street has insisted allegations that Boris Johnson groped two women at the same time are "untrue".
Vaccines could become compulsory for all schoolchildren to combat the rise in preventable diseases, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has revealed.
Boris Johnson must launch an inquiry into the “widespread, institutional and systemic” problem of Islamophobia in the Tory ranks - or risk being the “nasty and not-do-anything-about-it party”.
A Tory MP has come under fire after he admitted blacking up as the singer James Brown for a fancy-dress party.
Jeremy Corbyn said Boris Johnson should say sorry to the Queen and “apologise to the British people” for unlawfully suspending Parliament.
Labour has backed radical plans to reduce Britain’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2030.
Labour has pledged to halve food bank usage within its first year in government while aiming to end the need for them in three years.
Labour are set to agree to commit to hitting zero carbon emissions by 2030 – despite one of its biggest union backers trying to water the plan down.