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Matt is the former news editor of PoliticsHome. He joined PoliticsHome as a reporter in 2014 and also served as deputy editor of Whitehall sister title Civil Service World. He was acting editor of PoliticsHome from April to August 2020
A second EU referendum is "inevitable" if Labour cannot force a general election over Theresa May's Brexit crisis, John McDonnell has said.
Tributes have been paid after former Conservative minister and Bletchley Park codebreaker Baroness Trumpington died at the age of 96.
Theresa May has confirmed that she's "ready" for a televised showdown with Jeremy Corbyn over her Brexit deal as she races to sell it to the country.
Theresa May's chief of staff has begged Labour MPs to back her Brexit deal in a desperate bid to avoid a humiliating Commons defeat.
Labour MPs have been summoned to a Brexit briefing with Theresa May’s top team as she battles to win Commons support for her EU deal.
Theresa May's deal with the European Union would hit the UK economy to the tune of £100bn a year by the end of the next decade, according to new analysis.
Labour has said Jeremy Corbyn would "relish" a TV debate with Theresa May after it emerged she is ready to go head-to-head with the opposition leader over her Brexit deal.
Brexiteers and Remainers should jointly agree that another referendum on leaving the European Union would settle the issue "for a generation", Tony Blair has said.
Theresa May's hopes of getting her Brexit deal through Parliament suffered yet another blow as a Labour MP open to backing the agreement said it was now "inconceivable" she would vote for it.
Two top Cabinet ministers have concerns about an immigration clampdown that Theresa May will use to try and sell her Brexit deal to the public, it has been reported.
Read the Prime Minister's full "heart and soul" call for voters to get behind her agreement with the EU.
Theresa May has called on the public to unite behind her Brexit deal as EU leaders prepared to formally sign off the agreement.
Eurosceptic MPs have warned Theresa May to dump her plans for avoiding a hard border in Ireland or face a humiliating Commons defeat on her Brexit blueprint.
Theresa May sparked confusion today when she said the UK would leave the EU in March next year - just minutes after warning MPs Brexit could be halted.
Labour will seek to exploit Conservative divisions over post-Brexit fishing policy today as the Government's flagship Fisheries Bill heads back to the Commons.
Ministers need to "broaden out" their support for low-paid women, Penny Mordaunt will say today, as she sets out plans to change the focus of the Government's top equalities body.
The House of Lords watchdog that called for a peer accused of sexual harassment to be hit with Parliament's longest-ever ban has defended its probe into his conduct.
Theresa May will go on the offensive today as she insists her Brexit agreement with the EU is “final”.
Theresa May has named Steve Barclay as her new Brexit Secretary after Dominic Raab stormed out with a blast at her EU deal.
Amber Rudd has made a dramatic comeback to Government just months after resigning over the Windrush scandal as Theresa May sought to reassert her authority following a string of resignations over Brexit.
European Research Group chair Jacob Rees-Mogg has just called for a vote of no confidence in Theresa May after she unveiled her controversial Brexit deal. But how would that work in practice? PolHome news editor Matt Foster trawls through the Conservative rulebook.
Dominic Raab's decision to storm out of the Cabinet over Theresa May's Brexit deal has been brutally savaged by one of his former colleagues.
Theresa May’s Government has been plunged into turmoil as the Prime Minister suffered two major Cabinet resignations over her Brexit plan.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has plunged Theresa May's Government into crisis as he dramatically resigned just hours after she agreed a deal with the EU.
Theresa May has been forced to bring forward a clampdown on fixed odds betting terminals after a major revolt by Tory MPs.
Theresa May could lose a string of ministerial aides if she refuses to back down over an apparent delay in curbs on fixed-odds betting terminals, it has emerged.
Theresa May will urge the Cabinet to get behind her Brexit deal today in the face of furious opposition from Conservative eurosceptics and the DUP.
Ministers will be forced to publish secret legal advice on Brexit after Labour teamed up with Conservative Brexiteers and the Democratic Unionist Party to inflict a major Commons defeat.
Theresa May has yet another Conservative rebellion on her hands as at least nine Tory MPs called on ministers to give a full explanation of how her Brexit deal would compare with staying in the EU.
A former Liberal Democrat peer could be hit with Parliament's longest-ever suspension over claims he tried to get a woman to have sex with him in return for getting her into the House of Lords.
Boris Johnson is set to cause a fresh headache for Theresa May as he joins up to 60 MPs rebelling over delays to a clampdown on gambling machines.
Theresa May will have to resign as Prime Minister if her Brexit plan is "torn up" by Parliament, a Tory former Cabinet minister has declared.
A Brexit backstop plan that leaves Britain "trapped" in the EU's customs orbit would not be "sellable" to Parliament, Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has warned Theresa May.
Labour could still throw its weight behind a second referendum on leaving the EU, a top frontbencher has insisted, after Jeremy Corbyn angered MPs by saying Brexit could not be stopped.
Matt Hancock has revealed he is considering plans for a new tax on the over-40s to solve Britain's social care funding crisis.
Theresa May is under mounting pressure to change course on Brexit as Conservative Eurosceptics and the DUP issued a joint threat to vote down any deal she strikes with Brussels.