DUP leader Arlene Foster has said a Brexit breakthrough on the Northern Irish border could be ‘close’, following a meeting with Dominic Raab in Belfast today.

We know how to tackle poverty, especially child poverty. But it requires political will and a better informed public debate about its causes and effects, writes Lord Bassam

A row about fish may seem an unlikely hook for journalists to reel in their readers - but furious debate over seafood after Brexit has opened up a whole new angle for newsrooms.

Yesterday the Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his 2018 Budget claiming the “era of austerity is finally coming to an end”. Today, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) provides its reaction to the announcements affecting construction and the wider economy.

Philip Hammond delivered a tax windfall to the richest households in Britain in his set-piece Budget yesterday, while the poorest continue to face benefit cuts, a damning report has revealed.

Philip Hammond today caved to pressure from angry Conservatives MPs and ploughed extra money into the under-fire Universal Credit system.

Here are the new measures Philip Hammond just announced in his Autumn Budget. 

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has challenged Conservative MPs to vote down Monday's Budget if Philip Hammond does not use it to halt the rollout of Universal Credit.

Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has torn into Labour peer Lord Hain for using Parliamentary privilege to reveal claims of sexual and racial harassment against him.

Jeremy Corbyn will today call on ministers to boost funding for children's services in Monday's Budget with a warning that cuts are putting children’s lives in danger.

A top Labour peer will today urge the Scottish branch of the party to "get off the fence" and back a second Brexit referendum, piling pressure on Jeremy Corbyn.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has revealed that she has given birth to a boy.

Labour peer Lord Hain has defended his decision to out Topshop boss Sir Philip Green as the business mogul at the centre of an alleged harassment cover-up. 

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, has today joined Tracy Brabin – Labour’s Shadow Minister for Early Years and MP for Batley and Spen – in calling for Shared Parental Leave (SPL) to be extended to the self-employed.

MPs on a powerful committee have accused the Government of ignoring the "unacceptable hardship" suffered by benefit claimants switching to the controversial Universal Credit system.

The debate over Universal Credit has been rumbling on for years with the pressure on Philip Hammond now at breaking point. But what is the debate all about? PoliticsHome explains. 

The Executive Director of the Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association (MIMA), the industry trade body for non-combustible insulation, writes in advance of #Budget2018 calling for a national programme of improving energy efficiency in homes which would also have health and wellbeing benefits.

Social media has contributed to the steep rise in self-harm among teenage girls, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has claimed.

Britain is at risk of becoming a “two-speed society" thanks to a string of "alarming backward steps" on the equalities agenda, according to the government’s own watchdog.

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, strongly supports Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable’s calls for a halt to the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC). To support the self-employed, IPSE particularly backs his calls to take fluctuating income into account and assess earnings not over one month but several.

Several Tory MPs have have backed a fresh bid to make abortion legal in Northern Ireland, piling pressure on the Government.

Liverpool is the fourth most deprived local authority areas in the UK, writes Luciana Berger MP, and it is time to give it the investment it needs in next week's budget. 

Ministers should treat pornography as a major public health issue to combat the harassment and abuse of women, MPs have said.