Anahita Hossein-Pour

Business tycoon Arron Banks allegedly spent nearly half a million pounds funding a lavish lifestyle for Nigel Farage in the year following the 2016 referendum result, according to a Channel 4 News investigation.

The Tories have been accused of attempting to rig future elections after hundreds of people were turned away at polling stations in the latest voter ID pilot scheme.

A Labour government would trial a radical scheme of paying every citizen cash regardless of their wealth, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has revealed.

Sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson has warned Theresa May her talks with the Labour party over Brexit amount to a “betrayal”.

Jeremy Corbyn has said that a second EU referendum could be seen as a “healing process” for the country that brings the Brexit impasse to a conclusion.

Esther McVey has confirmed she will be running for the Conservative leadership when Theresa May stands down.

Ministers have been urged to plough more resources into police budgets as it emerged the number of officers requiring treatment for mental health problems has soared.

Nearly 400 MPs including nine Cabinet ministers and Jeremy Corbyn have had their official credit cards suspended for breaking rules on expenses, it has been revealed.

A Ukip MEP candidate is being investigated by police over rape comments he made about a Labour MP.

Theresa May has been urged to resign after the Conservatives suffered a "very difficult" set of results in the local elections.

A former Tory Cabinet minister has called for Theresa May to go as the party braced itself for heavy losses in the local elections.

A Brexit Party candidate for the European elections has quit over a colleague's refusal to apologise for past comments on a notorious IRA bombing.

Theresa May has been accused of "rewarding" Gavin Williamson after it emerged he will receive a pay-off following his sacking over the Huawei leak.

Ministers should commit to an “ambitious new goal” of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, a Government advisory body has said.

Ministers have been accused of "keeping the public in the dark" as the number of Freedom of Information requests rejected by Whitehall departments hit a record high.

Ministers must plug the funding gap to save children’s services currently at “crisis point”, a group of influential MPs has demanded.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has ruled out standing to be an MP at the next planned general election in 2022.

The UK’s fracking tsar has quit her post just after six months as she accused the Government of pandering to environmental activists.

Labour will this week force a Commons vote on declaring a national climate emergency.

Talks aimed at restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland are to restart in the wake of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.

Vince Cable has admitted his “regret” that Remain parties will not be fighting the EU elections on a united front.

Labour has accused ministers of being "in denial" over the impact of police cuts as knife crime figures rose to record levels last year.

The Government must urgently address the “grave” and “systemic” breaches of women’s rights flagged up in relation to Northern Ireland's abortion laws, MPs have warned.

Voters will get the chance to oust a Tory MP after he was convicted of filing false expenses claims, John Bercow has confirmed. 

Change UK has unveiled Rachel Johnson - sister of Tory Brexiteer Boris - as a candidate in the European elections.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has sent a message of solidarity to persecuted Christians around the world to mark the end of Lent.

A Ukip candidate has branded a female MP a "giant b*tch" as he refused to apologise for rape comments during the party's official European election campaign launch.

Politicians are getting out on the doorstep once again after weeks of Brexit chaos - and are doing their best to focus the fight on the bread-and-butter issues affecting people’s lives at home.

UK universities must do more to help serving and former armed forces personnel and their families, ministers have said.

Complaints against MPs from members of the public are on track to more than double this year, official figures indicate.

Theresa May must be removed or the Conservative party and the country will be “destroyed by the neo-Marxists,” a Tory grandee has warned.

Jeremy Corbyn has confessed his concerns that evidence of anti-semitism in the Labour party has been “mislaid, ignored or not used,” a secret recording has revealed.

The Labour party will be deserted by millions of anti-Brexit voters if it fails to back a second referendum in the upcoming EU elections, Jeremy Corbyn has been warned.

Diane Abbott has been criticised after defending Julian Assange following his removal from the Ecuadorian embassy and arrest.

A cross-party group of nearly 100 MPs have called on Sajid Javid to do more to protect mosques from attacks ahead of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.

A leading Tory Brexiteer has demanded another vote of confidence in Theresa May’s leadership in a bid to pile pressure on her to quit as Prime Minister.