Kevin Schofield

Labour bosses have been accused of a "stitch-up" designed to ensure a left-wing candidate will be chosen to stand in the forthcoming Lewisham East by-election.

MPs have rejected a bid to set up the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry into press behaviour.

Labour MPs will not be ordered by Jeremy Corbyn to support calls for the Government to strike a Norway-style deal with the EU after Brexit.

Peers have backed calls for the UK to strike a Norway-style soft Brexit deal after Jeremy Corbyn was hit by a massive rebellion.

A Labour frontbencher has been sacked over allegations of workplace bullying.

Peers inflicted yet another defeat on the Government as they voted to remove the Brexit date from the EU Withdrawal Bill.

A portrait of Theresa May has been removed from a wall at Oxford University after protests by students.

Theresa May has called on MPs to reject a bid by Tom Watson to force newspapers to pay legal bills even in cases that they win.

Downing Street has rebuked Boris Johnson after he described the Prime Minister's preferred post-Brexit customs plan as "crazy".

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor has condemned the “Militant-style nastiness” which has led him to question his loyalty to the Labour party.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit back at claims by a former Cabinet minister that the pro-Brexit campaign group he chairs is “acting like Russia” over the customs union.

John Bercow is planning to stay on as Speaker for another year despite allegations of bullying against him, it has emerged.

Labour MPs have called for an inquest after the party fell short of expectations in the local elections.

Donald Trump has risked a fresh row ahead of his first trip to the UK as American president by claiming knife attacks had left a London hospital “like a war zone”.

A top judge has ruled that Unite was correct to call a general secretary election when Len McCluskey dramatically quit the role.

A fresh Labour anti-Semitism row has erupted after a senior frontbencher accused the party’s former general secretary of failing to tackle the problem.

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted that the Conservatives are “right to be worried” about Labour despite his party failing to seize a host of key target councils.

A Foreign Office minister has condemned the Palestinian president after he appeared to justify the Holocaust in a speech attended by Emily Thornberry.

After last autumn’s abortive coup, Grant Shapps admits he is not ‘waiting by the phone’ for a call from the Prime Minister. Instead the trained pilot and chair of the APPG on aviation is now ‘ploughing his own furrow’ on the backbenches. He talks to Kevin Schofield about his three passions – planes, blockchain and infrastructure

Theresa May's authority has been dealt a fresh blow after Cabinet Brexiteers blocked her preferred plan for a new trading arrangement with the European Union.

Commons Speaker John Bercow's behaviour is "unworthy of someone in such public office", according to a former senior Westminster official.

Ministers have been ordered to preserve the frictionless border between the Republic and Northern Ireland as the House of Lords inflicted a tenth defeat on the Government's flagship Brexit bill.

John Bercow's future as Commons Speaker is hanging in the balance after Downing Street suggested three different ways in which he could face an investigation into bullying allegations made against him.

Theresa May has hinted that the Government could back a completely new type of customs agreement with the EU amid bitter Cabinet in-fighting.

Housing minister Dominic Raab has insisted a sex scandal involving his diary secretary which sparked a security alert is a "storm in a teacup".

A Labour frontbencher who defied Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit has been spared the sack, it has emerged.

John Woodcock has been suspended by the Labour party over allegations that he sexually harassed a female aide.

The Government has suffered its seventh defeat in the House of Lords on its flagship Brexit legislation.

Public confidence in Jeremy Corbyn has fallen dramatically in the past month, a new poll has revealed.

Rebel Lords have been accused by Number 10 of trying to overturn the EU referendum result as the Government braces itself for yet another defeat on its flagship Brexit bill.

Here is a summary of this morning's briefing for lobby journalists by the Prime Minister's official spokesman.

Amber Rudd has plunged Theresa May's government into fresh turmoil by dramatically resigning as Home Secretary.

Amber Rudd is facing fresh demands for her to quit after it emerged she told Theresa May she had 'ambitious but deliverable' targets for removing illegal immigants.

Donald Trump will finally visit Britain for the first time as American president this summer, it has been confirmed.

Here is a summary of this morning's briefing for lobby journalists by the Prime Minister's official spokesman.

Labour MPs are using the anti-Semitism row engulfing the party to "attack and undermine" Jeremy Corbyn, according to Len McCluskey.