Nicholas Mairs

MPs will begin debating the committee stage of the EU withdrawal bill on 14 November, after parliament returns from recess, the Government has confirmed.

The European Union is drawing up plans to offer Theresa May a post-Brexit transition period of just 20 months, it has been reported.

Theresa May is on the verge of offering a job to the former head of the Vote Leave campaign in a bid to revitalise the her party’s fortunes.

A report by the Work and Pensions committee has piled pressure on Theresa May to bring down the six-week waiting time for new Universal Credit claimants.

Theresa May has given fresh assurances to the DUP that she will work to ensure that the 4000 jobs under threat at Bombardier’s Belfast plant are secured.

A cross-party group of over 100 MPs have called for "urgent action" from Oxford and Cambridge universities to boost disadvantaged student numbers.

Britain’s anti-terror tsar stands accused of “breathtaking naivety” after he criticised a plan to ban watching extremist speeches online, according to a report.

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he thought Britain’s decision to quit the EU was the “single stupidest” decision by a country - but that the US then "Trumped it".

Conservative backbencher Charlie Elphicke has called on Philip Hammond to set aside a £1bn war chest for in case Britain leaves the EU without a trade deal.

Labour has rebuked Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke for failing to attend an emergency debate on the controversial Universal Credit system.

Labour has launched an official investigation into Jared O’Mara amid a storm over sexist and racist comments he made in the past.

Theresa May has said she believes the second phase of Brexit talks on the future trade relationship between the UK and EU can begin in December.

Jean-Claude Juncker has dismissed a report that claimed Theresa May was "begging for help" at a private dinner in Brussels last week.

Britain is likely to crash out of the European Union without a trade deal as a result of Theresa May’s "intransigence" in negotiations, Emily Thornberry has said.

Theresa May’s plan to cap energy bills may not go ahead after evidence has emerged that civil servants are preparing for it to be dropped next year.

Keir Starmer has said Labour will work with Conservative rebels to force a binding vote on the final Brexit deal if his party's six "red lines" are not met.

MPs have rounded on Donald Trump after he linked figures showing a rise in recorded crime in the UK to “the spread of radical Islamic terror”.

Donald Tusk has said the EU27 have agreed that preparations to move on to the second phase of Brexit talks can get underway.

Jeremy Corbyn will meet with senior European officials in Brussels today in an attempt to end the impasse in negotiations between the UK and EU, Labour has said.

Northern Ireland is on a "glide path" to direct rule unless the province’s major parties reach a deal to restore devolution by the start of next month, James Brokenshire has said.

Boris Johnson has accused MPs of "trivialising" the disaster in Libya after he was pressed three times to apologise for a gaffe in which he spoke of “clearing the dead bodies away”.

Inflation hit 3% in September for the first time since March 2012, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.

Facebook and Google are “bad for democracy” and threaten the future of local media by “taking all their content and reproducing it for free”, a former Culture Secretary is set to say.

Theresa May would have kept the Conservatives’ majority at June’s election were it fought under the new boundary proposals, a study has revealed.

The youth wing of the Labour party has voted at odds with the leadership by calling for Britain to withdraw from the Nato alliance.

The contest to decide the next leader of the Labour Party in Scotland is being “rigged”, according to a senior MP.

Philip Hammond has been hit with more criticism by senior right-wing Tories over his approach to Brexit amid claims relations between the Chancellor and Prime Minister have hit a new low.

The Conservatives must "confront" the question of Theresa May’s leadership if they are to stand any chance of winning back the political initiative, George Osborne has warned.

Former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson has said Philip Hammond should be sacked for trying to "sabotage" the Government's attempts to prepare for Brexit.

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has admitted Labour has shown “double standards” in criticising Government phone call charges – after it was revealed they use a similar number.

Jeremy Hunt has admitted he was wrong to quote 30,000 as the number of NHS mental health recruits since the Tories came to power - after it was revealed the number totalled just 692.

The Government has backed calls to lift prison sentences for those involved in the planning of “less sophisticated" but "equally deadly" terror attacks.

Britain and the European Union are close to reaching agreement on the future of EU residents in the UK and British citizens on the continent, Theresa May has said.

Air traffic between the UK and the EU could "theoretically" come to a halt on Brexit day, Philip Hammond has warned.

Social media companies could be regulated like newspapers and magazines in a bid by the Government to make Britain the “safest place in the world to be online”.

Theresa May last night urged Donald Trump not to pull out of the landmark nuclear deal with Iran, because it is "vitally important for regional security".