Matt Honeycombe-Foster

MPs are to be stripped of their role in vetting claims of bullying and sexual harassment against their own colleagues, Commons authorities have announced.

Michael Gove has told businesses to get ready for "inevitable" border checks in the wake of Brexit as the Government confirmed plans to bring in import controls from next year.

Boris Johnson is to give the green light to the entire High Speed 2 rail line - despite concern from Tory MPs about the project's spiralling costs.

Ministers have been dealt a blow as the Court of Appeal halted a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica at the 11th-hour.

Voters’ concerns about Jeremy Corbyn, Labour election promises that were “not believable” and a campaign dominated by Brexit were the main reasons Boris Johnson won the keys to Number 10 last year, according to a new poll.

No British nationals will be on board a controversial deportation flight bound for Jamaica that is due to leave on Tuesday, the Government has insisted.

The Conservatives could preside over another "decade of disappointment" that will further their "neglect" of the North of England, John McDonnell has declared.

Former Labour minister Liam Byrne has seen off his two left-wing rivals to become the party's candidate for West Midlands mayor.

Labour members would be able to veto any military action being supported by the party's leadership under radical plans being proposed by Richard Burgon.

John Bercow said he would not rely on the word of a "f***ing clerk" who accused an MP of bullying and harassment, the Speaker's former top official has claimed.

Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke have both been nominated for peerages by Boris Johnson despite the pair being kicked out of the Conservative Party for opposing him on Brexit, it has emerged.

The Liberal Democrats shot themselves “in the foot” at the election by focusing their fire on Labour instead of the Tories, the first MP to confirm they are running to succeed Jo Swinson has declared.

Labour frontbencher Tracy Brabin has hit back at "sexist" social media critics who branded her a "tart" for wearing an off-the-shoulder outfit at the Commons despatch box.

David Cameron and William Hague have rejected a plea from Boris Johnson to head up a major climate change summit, it has emerged.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour as she said "mismanagement and a bad organisational culture" had played a part in its election drubbing.

Boris Johnson has been accused of a "failure of global vision and leadership" on climate change amid a bitter row with a sacked former adviser.

The Government's troubled Universal Credit welfare overhaul has been delayed yet again - and now will not be fully up-and-running until 2024.

Behind the rhetorical flourishes, Britain and the EU are gearing up for a major tussle over a post-Brexit trade deal. Matt Honeycombe-Foster digs into the detail

The system of automatically releasing convicted terrorists part-way through their sentences has “come to the end of its useful life”, Boris Johnson has declared in the wake of a fresh attack in London.

European fishing boats must have access to UK waters in return for a comprehensive free trade agreement with Brussels, Michel Barnier has declared.

Leo Varadkar has urged Boris Johnson to "tone down the nationalistic rhetoric" as the Prime Minister prepares to make a speech calling for "no alignment" with the European Union after Brexit.

Dominic Raab has rejected a claim from the EU's Michel Barnier that the Brexit agreement makes customs checks in the Irish Sea "indispensable".

Sir Keir Starmer will throw his weight behind a key Labour plan to tax the highest-paid as he seeks to clinch the party leadership.

Boris Johnson will declare that he wants "no alignment" between Britain and the European Union in a post-Brexit trade deal.

Boris Johnson said Britain had "taken back the tools of self-government" as Britain formally left the European Union after years of political drama.

Boris Johnson has dropped a fresh hint that the Government will press ahead with the controversial High Speed 2 rail link.

Keir Starmer has said he would undo Boris Johnson’s push to end European freedom of movement if he became Prime Minister.

The troubled Northern Rail franchise will be brought into public ownership after failing to "meet the needs of passengers", the Transport Secretary has announced.

More than half of the British public are unhappy with the way democracy is working, new research has found.

The US Secretary of State is flying into London for talks amid mounting American and Tory backbench anger over the decision to allow Huawei to help run the UK's 5G network.

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will be allowed to run "non-core" parts of the UK's 5G network despite a string of concerns from Tory MPs and the United States, it has been confirmed.

Boris Johnson will chair a crucial meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday amid signs he will press ahead with a controversial decision to award Huawei a role in the UK's 5G network.

Emily Thornberry has been criticised after telling a Holocaust Memorial Day event that Jeremy Corbyn will "always call out" racism.

Ministers are pressing ahead with a £500m fund to restore a string of railway lines controversially closed in the 1960s.

A multi-million pound advertising blitz designed to get the public ready for Brexit did not make them "significantly better prepared" for it, the public spending watchdog has found.

Ministers would be letting the Chinese government "nest a dragon" in the UK's 5G network if they press ahead with a decision to let Huawei help run it, Tory MPs have warned.