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Alain Tolhurst is Chief Reporter at PoliticsHome and host of The Rundown podcast each week.
Boris Johnson has been urged to “end the scourge of poverty pay” after new figures revealed staff working in a Government department earn well below the Real Living Wage.
Amber Rudd has denied she is a “sell-out” after appearing to reverse her warnings about the negative impact of a no-deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson has identified 9 September as the key date in the upcoming fight with MPs who want to block a no-deal Brexit, according to a senior Government source.
MPs who want to block a no-deal Brexit are running out of options and now stand little chance of stopping Boris Johnson from going through with it, according to a leading think tank.
Labour’s split on a second Scottish independence referendum has deepened after the party's deputy leader Tom Watson spoke out against it.
Boris Johnson has ordered an urgent review of sentencing policy, saying “the punishment must truly fit the crime” for offenders.
Fewer than five women have taken up the opportunity to become infantry soldiers – more than nine months after all Armed Forces roles were made open to them.
The number of tax exile non-doms in the UK has fallen to a record low amid fears of a Jeremy Corbyn government and uncertainty over Brexit.
A senior Tory has quit the party blaming Boris Johnson's "dangerous and damaging" Brexit strategy.
This autumn, politics is going to be dominated by two very different men both called Dominic, as the battle for Brexit draws closer to the 31 October deadline.
A Labour councillor has been suspended after promoting accusations that TV star Rachel Riley works for "the Israeli state propaganda machine".
Michael Gove has accused the European Union of being unwilling to negotiate with the UK over a new Brexit deal.
Nicola Sturgeon has hinted she could join forces with Jeremy Corbyn in a "progressive alliance" after a snap election.
The top 1% of taxpayers are increasingly just men based in London and the South East, according to new research branded “shocking” by Labour.
Britain is joining forces with the US to protect shipping in the Gulf after Iran reportedly seized a third tanker, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.
Dominic Raab has been accused by MPs of “misleading the public” by claiming he raised the possibility of a no-deal Brexit during the EU referendum when there is no evidence to show he did.
Plans to create tax-free zones at ports and airports post-Brexit have been condemned by Labour as a “race to the bottom”.
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has been slapped down by Number 10 after suggesting some suspects in rape cases should remain anonymous until they are charged.
Boris Johnson has been branded the DUP’s “gopher” by Sinn Fein as the party warned that a no-deal Brexit could lead to a border poll in Northern Ireland
Parliament may be in recess but politics has certainly not broken up for summer, with the new Prime Minister facing his first electoral test just eight days into the job.
Labour has torn into the Government after "alarming" figures revealed that the number of drugs found in prisons has almost doubled in the last two years.
Ruth Davidson has delivered a defiant message to Boris Johnson by saying she “won’t support” a no deal Brexit as Scottish Conservative leader.
Jo Swinson slammed Jeremy Corbyn as “hopeless” for refusing to say if he backs staying in the EU.
The Government is now operating “on the assumption” the UK is going to leave the EU without a deal, according to Michael Gove.
The Tories are enjoying a “Boris bounce” in the polls as a number of new surveys put them ahead of Labour on the back of Mr Johnson becoming Prime Minister
Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has been ordered to apologise to MPs for breaking Parliamentary rules over his second property.
Boris Johnson has vowed to defeat the “gloomsters” by delivering Brexit on 31 October “no ifs no buts”.
Theresa May urged Jeremy Corbyn to consider resigning too as she clashed with him in the Commons for the last time as Prime Minister.
Donald Trump has labelled Boris Johnson “Britain Trump” and claimed he will “get it done” as Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson will have his Cabinet top team in place “by tomorrow night” after he swept to victory in the Tory leadership contest.
The UK continued to send child soldiers to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite pledging to end the practice, PoliticsHome can reveal.
Boris Johnson has won a landslide victory to become the new Conservative leader and is set to be sworn in as the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Controversial plans to make all Brits show ID at polling stations are set to go ahead - despite more than 1,000 have been denied a vote during trials.
Labour’s Shadow Cabinet are being urged to “examine their consciences” as Jewish leaders call on them to stamp out anti-Semitism in the party.
Schools urgently need a multi-billion pound cash injection to fix the "broken education funding system", MPs have said.
Theresa May has refused to sack the rebels in her Cabinet after four senior ministers refused to vote with the Government against a bid to block a no-deal Brexit.