John Johnston

Jeremy Corbyn has called for Ed Miliband to head up a major UN climate summit after David Cameron turned down the role.

Boris Johnson's "short-term fixes" have failed to stabilise NHS finances, according to the public spending watchdog.

Keir Starmer has vowed to scrap the body which deals with complaints against Labour members if he becomes party leader.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has said sorry after she described a man who was left brain damaged following an accident as being a "practical vegetable".

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has hit out at Donald Tusk over his supportive comments towards Scottish independence, branding them "un-European" and "irresponsible".

Boris Johnson is preparing to launch a £5m ad blitz in a bid to dampen support for a future Scottish independence referendum.

Dominic Cummings has established a "network of spies" to watch special advisers suspected of passing over information to journalists, it has been claimed.

Stephen Barclay is set to receive a £17,000 golden goodbye as the Brexit department begins to wind down ahead of the UK's exit from the European Union.

Jeremy Hunt is among a group of former senior ministers handed top roles on influential select committees.

Mike Pompeo has urged the UK to "relook" at its decision to allow Chinese firm Huawei to build parts of the country's 5G network as he warned the tech giant posed a "real risk" to security.

Britain's departure from the EU has cleared its final hurdle after MEPs backed the Brexit deal struck between Boris Johnson and Brussels.

Jeremy Corbyn has slammed Donald Trump's long-awaited peace plan for the Middle East, saying it will not help to deliver peace to the region.

Pubs are set to see their business rates slashed by £1,000 under new plans drawn up by the Treasury.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock is to chair a meeting of the Government's Cobra committee to discuss the growing threat from the deadly coronavirus.

Dominic Raab has condemned the US government over its decision not to extradite a diplomat's wife over the death of teenager Harry Dunn.

The UK government "stands shoulder to shoulder" with the family of Harry Dunn after America refused to extradite a diplomat's wife involved his death, according to Andrea Leadsom.

The UK is guaranteed to leave the European Union after the Queen rubber-stamped the Prime Minister's Brexit Bill.

Keir Starmer has halted his Labour leadership campaigning after an accident left his mother-in-law critically ill in hospital.

Boris Johnson has risked a trade war with America as he hit back in the row over the Government's plans to slap a new tax on the likes of Google and Facebook.

MPs have overturned a bid by a veteran Labour peer to let child refugees settle with their families in the UK.

Sajid Javid has defied warnings from the US over the introduction of a digital tax on tech giants as he vowed to push ahead with the plans.

Boris Johnson has been handed a fresh defeat in the House of Lords after peers backed calls to reinstate protections for child refugees in his flagship Brexit bill.

Labour party chairman Ian Lavery has come under fire after issuing an impassioned defence of the party's disastrous election campaign.

Boris Johnson has vowed that the UK's immigration system will put "people before passports" after Brexit.

The cost of HS2 could soar to £106bn, according to a government-comissioned review into the project.

Labour-supporting actor Ricky Tomlinson has thrown his weight behind Keir Starmer in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.

Rebecca Long-Bailey's bid to become the next Labour leader has been hit by controversy over comments she made before the election about late-term abortions.

Ian Murray has launched an outspoken attack on John McDonnell for changing Labour's policy on Scottish independence during an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Labour bosses have come under fire from one of country's biggest trade unions over their treatment of staff who were told they were being made redundant less than a month before Christmas.

Lisa Nandy's campaign to become the next Labour leader has received a significant boost after she won the support of the National Union of Mineworkers.

A Liberal Democrat peer compared post-Brexit Britain to Nazi Germany during a debate on Boris Johnson's Brexit plans.

The Prime Minister has written to the Scottish First Minister rejecting her demands for powers to be transferred to the Scottish Government to call a second independence referendum. Here's the full text.

Lisa Nandy has urged Labour members not to make the "easy choice" but to back her "brave" campaign for the party leadership.

As a vocal critic of her party's leadership since becoming an MP in 2015, Jess Phillips will have to work to mend the rift with her own grassroots before she attempts to mend divisions across the country.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should continue to have their security costs met by the British taxpayer, Emily Thornberry has said.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has rejected Jeremy Corbyn's claim that Labour "won the argument" despite losing the general election.