Kevin Schofield

The Conservatives continue to enjoy a commanding lead over Labour as the general election approaches, according to three new opinion polls.

The Conservatives have been urged to suspend a local party branch after a senior official quit amid allegations of Islamophobia.

Brussels has begin legal proceedings against the UK after the Government failed to nominate a new EU Commissioner.

A Labour government would guarantee free broadband for everyone in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn is to announce.

A Brexit Party candidate in a key Labour marginal has dramatically stood down in order to improve the chances of the Conservatives winning the seat.

A Labour government would "maintain and extend freedom of movement", Diane Abbott has declared.

Labour’s chances of winning a majority in the general election are virtually zero, according to the UK’s top polling guru.

Labour risks taking the support of Indian voters for granted by failing to select more general election candidates from the community.

Voters are already unhappy at the prospect of having to go to the polls in the run-up to Christmas.

A Boris Johnson majority government will lead to a no-deal Brexit and devastate large parts of the UK economy, a former Tory Cabinet minister has warned.

A Labour member beaten in the race for a plum seat by a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the party's "crooked" candidate selection process.

A Brexit Party MEP has quit as a general election candidate in protest at Nigel Farage's decision not to contest Tory-held seats.

Labour has foiled a "sophisticated and large scale" attempt to hack the party's database.

Nigel Farage is coming under pressure from senior Conservatives not to stand candidates in Labour-held marginals.

Take anything Nigel Farage tells you with a mountain of salt.

A Labour activist criticised for sharing an image of Theresa May with a gun pointing at her head has been chosen as a general election candidate.

Female Labour MPs have called on party bosses to block a candidate who shared a picture of Theresa May with a gun pointing at her head.

The wife of a former Tory MP charged with sexual assault has been chose by the party to stand as an election candidate in his place.

The BBC has been accused of an "establishment stitch-up" after announcing that Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson will go head-to-head in a live debate less than a week before the election.

A Conservative general election candidate has been forced to stand down after just 24 hours over comments he made in the past about rape.

A Labour election candidate has been criticised after she appeared to compare celebrating the death of Tony Blair to cheering Adolf Hitler's demise.

Labour's membership is on course to hit half a million again following a surge in applications after the general election was called.

Sajid Javid has ditched the Government's rules for keeping borrowing low as he pledged to spend an extra £20bn a year on public services if the Conservatives win the election.

Former Labour MP Ian Austin has called on voters to back Boris Johnson at the general election.

Tom Watson is to quit Parliament and as Labour's deputy leader at the general election, he has announced.

Labour officials have been accused of mounting a "smear campaign" against one of the party's election candidates after she was dumped just days after being selected.

Chris Williamson has been banned from standing for Labour at the general election.

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has apologised after suggesting that Jacob Rees-Mogg would have survived the Grenfell Tower tragedy because he is more "clever" than the victims.

A controversial Labour candidate accused those on the right of the party of "weaponising" anti-semitism to score points against their internal political enemies.

Sajid Javid has been left red-faced after the Government's top civil servant intervened to stop the Treasury publishing its assessment of Labour's policies.

Boris Johnson wants to deliver Brexit so he can "unleash Thatcherism on steroids", according to Jeremy Corbyn.

Senior government officials are furious at "leaks" from the top-secret Intelligence and Security Committee, it has emerged.

Labour would bring back free TV licences for the over-75s if it wins the election, the party has announced.

A close ally of Boris Johnson is standing down from Parliament after being accused of groping by a Labour MP.

A Whitehall probe has ruled that the decision to give £100,000 in public money to a firm run by an associate of Boris Johnson was "appropriate".

Antoinette Sandbach has become the latest Tory Brexit rebel to defect to the Liberal Democrats.