John Johnston

Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister is set to stand for Nigel Farage's new party in the upcoming European elections, it has been revealed.

Civil servants have been told to shelve preparations for a no-deal Brexit with "immediate effect" after departments spent more than £4bn preparing for a cliff-edge departure from the EU.

Theresa May has dismissed a furious Tory MP's call for her to resign as he accused her of "abject surrender" over the latest Brexit delay.

Tory MP Johnny Mercer has claimed that Conservative whips have been trying to get his former Army colleagues to provide them with damaging information about him.

A cross-party group of MPs have urged ministers to introduce a new watchdog to crack down on debt enforcement firms.

A Tory MP has refused to rule out voting for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party if the UK takes part in next month's European Parliament elections.

Labour frontbencher Rebecca Long-Bailey has said Labour would consider revoking Article 50 to avoid a no-deal Brexit.

Labour have been accused of failing to "get to grips" with anti-semitism after a tranche of leaked emails showed hundreds of complaints remained unresolved.

Dozens of Labour backbenchers have urged Jeremy Corbyn to commit to putting any Brexit deal agreed by the Commons to a public vote.

Tom Watson has urged Jeremy Corbyn to commit to a second referendum, or risk infuriating backbench Labour MPs.

A pro-Brexit Tory peer has warned that "insurrectionary forces" could be let loose if Parliament fails to honour the outcome of the EU referendum.

A second Tory minister has quit the Government within hours over Theresa May’s handling of Brexit as she seeks a new compromise with Jeremy Corbyn.

Short prison sentences should be axed to stem prison overcrowding, an influential group of MPs has demanded.

The UK's top civil servant has given ministers a grim forecast of how the country could be affected by a no-deal Brexit after MPs once again rejected alternative plans to break the deadlock.

The Conservative mayoral candidate for London has taken a swipe at the knife crime summit convened by Theresa May in Downing Street today.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined the Jewish Labour Movement as he declared that his party has "let the Jewish community down".

The Independent Group could be facing an embarrassing legal challenge after it changed its name to register as a political party.

Jeremy Corbyn has led calls from opposition party leaders for a general election after Theresa May’s Brexit deal was rejected by MPs for the third time.

A furious row has erupted after Theresa May challenged MPs to vote down her Brexit deal on the day the UK was supposed to leave the European Union.

The Government will not appoint a new disabilities minister until after the Brexit crisis has been resolved, the Tories vice-chairman has said.

The UK's entire economic system could be undermined unless firms do more to tackle the pay gap between workers and executives, MPs have warned.

Theresa May has warned MPs that could ignore any alternative plan to her deal even if a majority of them vote for it.

Labour have reinstated a councillor who made jokes about “Jew process” during a meeting on anti-semitism.

The Liberal Democrats have suspended former party leader Lord Steel after he admitted "assuming" Cyril Smith had abused boys in the 1960s.

Sir Vince Cable has announced he will step down as leader of the Liberal Democrats in May after less than two years in the role.

John Bercow has come under fire after he snubbed an attempt by Brexiteers to torpedo the chances of a second referendum.

Boris Johnson has been branded "shameless" after he claimed that money spent investigating historic cases of child sex abuse was being “spaffed up the wall”.

A raft of senior Brexiteers have called for the meaningful vote to be delayed to allow them to fully examine the details of Theresa May’s new backstop plan.

John McDonnell has said he would be prepared to accept a delay to Brexit for "as long as necessary" in order to strike a deal with the EU.

Ministers are set to implement new price capping powers to prevent a surge in drug prices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Two of Jeremy Corbyn's closest aides allegedly moved to block the suspension of a member being investigated for making anti-semitic remarks.

Andrea Leadsom has been criticised for suggesting that an MP seeking a debate on Islamophobia in the UK should speak to Foreign Office ministers.

Amber Rudd has been forced to apologise after she sparked outrage by describing Diane Abbott as a “coloured woman”.

Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has been forced to apologise for comments she made about military killings during the Troubles.

Pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum have been slapped with a record £16,700 fine for multiple breaches of election rules.

Labour has blamed government spending cuts after a new report revealed plummeting standards in the care home sector.