Nicholas Mairs

The UK's leading food industry body is urging ministers to urgently clarify the future of EU nationals, with a warning that nearly half of workers in the sector are considering leaving the UK.

Scotland’s notional deficit fell by £1.3bn last year, official Scottish government statistics have revealed.

Ireland's prime minister has said he is “confused and puzzled” about what Britain wants from its future trading relationship with the European Union.

Scotland 'holds the keys' to Labour returning to government at Westminster, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Shops and restaurants will be forced to shrink their products unless they can find another way to meet government guidelines to reduce obesity, a senior health official has said.

Alex Salmond has batted away criticism of a joke he made about having sex with prominent female political figures, saying it was “harmless innuendo”.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson was today facing “serious questions” after thousands of pounds were omitted from her election expenses.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused Theresa May of being more interested in protecting the Conservatives' reputation than delivering justice for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Britain is on course to face the worst decade for household incomes since the 1940s, according to Labour.

Sarah Champion has resigned from Labour's frontbench over an article for The Sun in which she claimed Britain "has a problem" with Pakistani men raping white girls.

The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1975 in the last quarter, but wages continued to lag behind inflation.

Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad has said the terms of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire amount to a “betrayal” of the victims.

The Grenfell Tower public inquiry has published its terms of reference and officially begins work today. 

MPs have hit out at the announcement by parliamentary authorities that Big Ben is to fall silent for four years as repair work gets underway.

Jeremy Hunt has furiously denied reports that he demanded a personal bathroom worth £44,000 at his new office.

Five senior civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions have received bonuses of up to £20,000 – leading a Labour MP to accuse the Government of giving a “reward for failure”. 

Almost half of British voters want Theresa May to quit before the next general election, according to a new poll.

Brexit decisions are being “rushed through” in order to quash fears of a lack of action by the Government, according to civil servants and ministers.

Nine in 10 of England’s biggest NHS trusts are failing to employ enough nurses to ensure patients are safe, according to analysis.

A senior Ukip MEP has resigned as deputy whip in the European Parliament over party support for an anti-Islam campaigner.

Former minister Anna Soubry has become the highest profile Conservative to say she could join a new party over the Government’s stance on Brexit. 

Theresa May is preparing to apologise to Conservative members for the mistakes that led to the party’s general election losses, according to a report. 

Jeremy Corbyn has said the Government “must not drag” Britain into taking military action against North Korea, at a time when tensions between the state and the US are ramping up.

Former Tony Blair advisor John McTernan has revealed he is a paid-up member of pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum.

Philip Hammond and Liam Fox have united to declare that the UK will seek a transition deal with the EU but will not stay in the bloc "by the back door".

Labour has backed a campaign to make the taking of “upskirt” photographs a sexual offence in law.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for direct talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in a bid to settle the ongoing tension between the countries.

Authorities responsible for protecting children are more concerned with avoiding accusations of racism than calling out suspected child abuse, a Shadow Cabinet minister has said.

Westminster needs to make “serious and significant” changes to post-EU devolution plans to win MSPs’ support for a crucial bill, Scotland’s Brexit minister has warned.

Labour has criticised the Government after it emerged the amount of NHS land up for sale more than doubled last year. 

Diane Abbott has said the Government's renewed backing of stop and search powers is merely an attempt to mask their "failure" to tackle violent crime.

Children’s social care services are in “crisis” with three in four councils having overspent their budgets last year, local authority leaders have warned.

Ireland's prime minister has hit out at Britain’s hard Brexiteers for failing to offer ideas on a future border between the UK and Ireland despite having had ‘ample time’.

Nicky Morgan has called on HMRC to address long-running problems with its website that have left some parents unable to register for free childcare provision.

The travel chaos on the continent could be "subterfuge" from member states trying to give Britain a "warning" after the Brexit vote, a minister has reportedly said.

Michael Gove has confirmed that some European fishing fleets will continue to have access to British waters after Brexit.