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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
Furious Brexiteers have lashed out at suggestions extra cash for the NHS will have to come from tax rises instead of money clawed back from the European Union after Britain's departure.
Senior Conservative figures are reportedly plotting to install Michael Gove in Number 10 as a caretaker Prime Minister - with Ruth Davidson stepping up to take on the top job in 2021.
The chair of parliament's powerful Home Affairs Committee has vowed to directly question ministers about the plight of a former Carillion worker who now faces a battle with the Home Office to stay in the UK.
Theresa May will “in all likelihood” have to keep Britain in the customs union beyond 2020, a powerful cross-party group of MPs has warned.
Every household in Britain could be hit with up to £2,000 in extra taxes over the next fifteen years in order to properly plug the NHS’s funding shortfall, two leading think tanks have said.
A searing account of the Donald Trump White House dismissed as “phony” by the US President himself has topped the list of books most borrowed by MPs this year, PoliticsHome can reveal.
An aide to Labour chairman Ian Lavery has been condemned after saying Theresa May "would look better with a noose around her neck".
Cabinet splits have burst into the open once again as Michael Gove blamed Philip Hammond for an "entirely predictable" Lords defeat over plans for a 'Green Brexit'.
The European Union looks set to reject Theresa May’s plan for a “time limited” extension of Britain’s customs ties with Brussels, dealing a fresh blow to her plans to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has launched an outspoken attack on Theresa May over Brexit, accusing the Prime Minister of “preparing for failure” and suggesting she may not be committed to leaving the European Union.
Households are £900 worse off than they would have been without the Brexit vote, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has claimed.
MPs are to demand urgent answers from the Home Office after it emerged that a Commonwealth citizen caught up in the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion now faces a “Kafka-esque” battle to stay in the country - despite his company wanting him to stay on.
Boris Johnson has said he is "convinced" that Theresa May will be "true to her promises of a Brexit deal", amid a furious Conservative Party row over Britain's future customs ties with the European Union.
Theresa May will today challenge the NHS to step up its use of "smart technology" to prevent more than 20,000 cancer-related deaths every year.
Theresa May has been accused of "kicking the can down the road" after it emerged her flagship Brexit bill may not even be passed in time for the summer.
Ministers have agreed to tell the EU that Britain is willing to stay in the customs union after 2021 - teeing up a fresh clash with Conservative eurosceptics.
Jeremy Corbyn is facing renewed pressure to shift his opposition to a Norway-style soft Brexit, amid reports that at least 70 MPs may be ready to defy him over the issue.
Support for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have been "underestimated", Emily Thornberry has claimed.
Jeremy Corbyn has urged Theresa May to “step aside” over her handling of the Brexit negotiations, as the Labour Leader and Prime Minister locked horns over future customs ties with the EU.
Theresa May has called for an inquiry into the "deeply troubling" deaths of scores of Palestinian demonstrators near the Israeli border.
Brits will be on hook for an extra £1.5bn in energy bills over the next fifteen years because of a bungled tweak to government policy, according to a new report by the public spending watchdog.
The directors of doomed construction giant Carillion were “too busy stuffing their mouths with gold” to save the firm from its spectacular collapse earlier this year, a hard-hitting joint report by MPs has said.
A shocking 63 British citizens from the Windrush generation may have been wrongfully deported from the UK, Sajid Javid revealed today.
MPs have killed off a bid to establish a fresh inquiry into press standards - less than 24 hours after the Lords demanded one be set up.
Unions and Remain campaigners have been fined by election watchdogs over expenses breaches during the EU referendum.
Conservative MPs have been accused of deliberately running down the parliamentary clock to thwart plans to give the vote to people aged under 16.
Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has been hit with a £70,000 fine for breaching campaign funding rules during the EU referendum.
Theresa May has extended her poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn to five points in spite of ongoing government divisions over Brexit and the continued fallout from the Windrush scandal.
Conservative backbenchers have accused their own government of an "undemocratic" outrage after a bill that won support from both sides of the House of Commons was blocked by ministers.
The post-Brexit customs plan being pushed by Boris Johnson and David Davis would damage hundreds of thousands of companies, ministers have been told.
Boris Johnson has denied being disloyal for describing Theresa May preferred post-Brexit customs plan as "crazy" - because the Government still does not have a policy on the issue.
Ministers' plans to improve support for children battling mental health problems will still leave thousands without the help they need, a powerful cross-party alliance of MPs has warned.
Theresa May has joined the leaders of France and Germany to condemn Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in the face of strong opposition from European nations.
Labour has been forced to insist its position on Brexit remains unchanged after frontbencher Emily Thornberry suggested the party was in favour of staying in the customs union.
Boris Johnson has urged Donald Trump not to “throw the baby out with the bathwater” as he appeared on US TV in a bid to convince the President not to scrap the Iran nuclear deal.
Labour has accused Theresa May of “failing” families, as new figures revealed that the number of children in working households growing up in poverty has soared since 2010.