Nicholas Mairs

Grammar schools should lose funding if they fail to boost the number of pupils from low-income families, the former Shadow Education Secretary has warned.

Trade union leaders have hit out at today’s review into employment practices for failing to shift the “balance of power” away from big companies and towards workers. 

MPs opposed to a hard Brexit have formed an all-party parliamentary group in a fresh bid to coordinate opposition to the Government’s strategy for leaving the European Union.

Theresa May’s proposals for European citizens’ rights after Brexit “would cast a dark cloud of vagueness and uncertainty” if implemented, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator has said.

A wealthy Conservative supporter has shelled out £160,000 for dinner with Theresa May - more than 10 times that offered for Boris Johnson.

Theresa May helped turn Jeremy Corbyn into the "nation’s favourite grandfather" thanks to the Conservatives' terrible election campaign, Lord Patten has said.

Ministers have announced they are ditching the Conservatives' election policy of scrapping free school meals for primary school pupils.

A close ally of Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour MPs who are unprepared to fully sign up to the party’s programme should face re-selection by local members.

Theresa May has been accused of burying a report into Islamist extremism in order to protect diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.

Philip Hammond has called for a ‘grown-up debate’ about tax and spending, but stopped short of promising an end to the public sector pay cap.

The UK wants to find a way to continue working with the EU on drug regulation after Brexit, two senior Cabinet ministers have said. 

Theresa May called David Cameron to ask him to express support for the Conservatives' deal with the DUP, according to a report.

Senior ministers are making life “very, very awkward” for Philip Hammond by pushing for an end to the public sector pay cap, Lord Lamont has said.

The UK’s Brexit negotiating team are reportedly planning to ditch plans for a “have cake and eat it” approach in which Britain seeks unfettered single market access without trade-offs on areas such as immigration.

Theresa May's own counter-terrorism adviser has accused ministers of acting like the Chinese government with plans to fine tech companies not deemed to be helping combat extremism.

The Government are failing to live up to their pledge to protect England’s countryside from excessive house-building, while those that are being built are unaffordable, campaigners have warned.

There is ‘little prospect’ of a deal being reached between Northern Ireland’s main parties to form a new power-sharing executive by the current deadline, Gerry Adams has said.

The UK is to withdraw from a fishing deal which has allowed other European countries to access British waters for decades.

Tom Watson has called on Jeremy Corbyn’s allies to abandon plans to change Labour’s rules for electing leaders.

Nigel Farage has said he will not be in the running to be the next leader of Ukip, calling the idea of a return “premature”.

Robert Halfon has been blasted by Oxfam after he suggested ministers cut back on overseas aid spending in order to up the wages of low paid public sector workers in Britain.

Changing the Commons' dress code so men no longer need to wear ties makes parliament look “more like a county council”, a Tory backbencher has said.

David Cameron vetoed proposals to scrap copper coins amid fears the move would "scare" the public, it has been revealed.

Holyrood ministers are to lift the 1% cap pay rises for Scottish public sector workers - as the UK government continues to hold out against a change.

Ministers have given the DUP and Sinn Féin more time to reach a deal on power-sharing at Stormont after they failed to meet the deadline of 4pm today.

Pro-Jeremy Corbyn group Momentum are set to launch their next general election campaign just weeks after polling day.

Vince Cable is on the verge of becoming leader of the Liberal Democrats after former energy secretary Ed Davey ruled himself out of the running.

UK forces are ready to hit cyber attackers by “air, land, sea or cyber space” in order to protect major infrastructure, Michael Fallon has warned.

Jeremy Hunt has been accused of presiding over an “absolute scandal” after it emerged thousands of NHS patients may have been put at risk by an administrative blunder.

The former SNP leader Gordon Wilson died this morning after a short illness, the party has confirmed.

The number of high rise buildings found to have combustible cladding has risen to 34, Government tests launched in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy have revealed.

Senior European figures have branded Theresa May’s offer aimed at protecting the right of EU citizens as “not sufficient” and “vague”, calling on the Prime Minister to go further.

The number of high rise buildings found to have combustible cladding in light of the Grenfell Tower disaster has risen to eleven, Sajid Javid has revealed.

The UK Government’s project to develop a new £18bn nuclear power station has been branded "risky and expensive" by the public spending watchdog.

More than three million EU nationals would be given the right to stay in the UK after Brexit under plans unveiled by Theresa May.

Top DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson has issued a warning to Downing Street by insisting Ulster men and women are “no pushover”.