Nicholas Mairs

David Davis is reportedly pushing for Northern Ireland to be given joint EU and UK status and a 10-mile border buffer zone after Brexit in a bid to tackle the ongoing customs deadlock.

The former head of controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica has finally agreed to appear before a major Commons committee as part of their inquiry into the firm's business practices.

Major European firms have said Theresa May must reach a frictionless post-Brexit customs arrangement with the EU or risk a cut in UK investment.

Three former cabinet ministers have told Theresa May that most Tory MPs are in favour of compromising with the European Union in Brexit talks.

A flagship Tory schools policy is failing in its original aim of offering extensive parental choice, a damning new report has said.

Shadow Scotland Secretary Lesley Laird will become the Scottish Labour party's deputy leader after being the only candidate nominated for the vacancy when voting closed.

Nicola Sturgeon has called on Theresa May to ditch the Government’s ‘unsustainable’ position of keeping the UK outside a customs union after Brexit in order for negotiations to progress.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has said the SNP-backed landmark report on how an independent Scotland could operate would usher in a "pro-longed period of austerity".

An independent Scotland should prepare to have its own currency but keep the Pound for an “extended transition period”, a landmark report has said.

Labour has attacked Theresa May over a pledge to bring forward an “LGBT action plan" this summer - branding it "empty PR".

Former Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings has blasted Theresa May’s “botched” Brexit strategy and called on the Tories to remove her as Prime Minister.

David Gauke will offer greater autonomy to prisons over what skills they teach in an effort to get more former inmates back into work upon release.

The UK has reportedly made clear its ‘strong objection’ to being shut out of the Galileo satellite programme after Brexit, as fresh splits emerge in the EU over the move.

Theresa May has come under fire after she said the proposed sell-off of Wembley Stadium to an American billionaire is "not a matter for the Government".

Dozens of MPs have written to the Financial Conduct Authority in a bid to have unarranged overdraft charges capped at the same level as arranged overdrafts.

Sajid Javid will today promise frontline police officers the "tools and back-up they need", in a bid to cool hostilities between the Government and force chiefs.

Labour will today launch a motion which could see Chris Grayling’s salary docked, in an effective vote of confidence in his ability as Transport Secretary.

Boris Johnson has said he needs his own plane as Foreign Secretary in order to boost Britain’s post-Brexit trade prospects.

Barry Gardiner has defended his claim that Brexit risks to the Good Friday Agreement were being "played up" for economic reasons as an attempt to further thinking on the Irish border.

Ministers are reportedly preparing to make the cost of manufacturing using unrecyclable plastics so “exorbitantly high” that it will end use of the materials altogether.

John McDonnell has said a Labour government would stop the big six firms in accountancy and auditing from “acting like a cartel” following the Carillion scandal.

Jeremy Corbyn will today say that a “perfect storm” of economic pressures on British workers is behind a drastic rise in people suffering from mental health problems.

Former Cabinet minister and party chair Sir Eric Pickles is among nine Conservatives to have been appointed to the House of Lords.

A Labour MP has said Andrea Leadsom should resign from the Government and accused Tory whips of 'spin', following reports John Bercow called her a ‘stupid woman’.

MPs have accused the Government of a “business as usual” approach to criminality by Kremlin-linked oligarchs in the UK despite promises of a major crackdown following the Salisbury attack.

A Conservative MP has called on the Government to bring forward a new tax which would see housing developers forced to fund local infrastructure.

The Scottish parliament is expected to refuse consent to the Government’s main Brexit bill later today, as MSPs continue to battle UK ministers over devolved powers.

Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the “wholly inadequate” response of the UK and other western governments to Israel’s “slaughter” of dozens of Palestinians amid Gaza protests.

David Miliband has warned Jeremy Corbyn he risks being the “midwife” of a Brexit which threatens people’s living standards by failing to back continued membership of the single market.

Senior Tory councillors have hit out at the Government for being put in the “unsustainable” position of having to funnel spending marked for state schools into supporting special needs children.

The head of MI5 has said sharing intelligence across Europe is more necessary than ever in order to tackle the growing threats of Islamist terrorism and Russian activity.

The Government will double its annual spend on tackling brain cancer in memory of the late Tessa Jowell, Theresa May has said.

Shami Chakrabarti has said Ken Livingstone should be kicked out of Labour for “repeatedly” bringing the party into disrepute.

Ireland’s deputy prime minister has all-but rejected the customs proposal being pushed by pro-Brexit MPs in Theresa May's Cabinet.

John Bercow has told friends that he will stand down as Speaker next year after a decade in the role, it has been reported.

Former Cabinet Minister Dame Tessa Jowell has died at the age of 70, following a battle with brain cancer.