Tory chair Brandon Lewis has revealed he is "absolutely committed" to ensuring women make up half of the party’s candidates at future elections.

Boris Johnson should be booted out of the Conservative party for saying Muslim women who wear burqas look like bank robbers and letterboxes, according to a Tory peer.

Labour has been accused of undermining the global fight against anti-Semitism by the body which drew up the international definition of the issue.

Boris Johnson has rejected Tory chairman Brandon Lewis's call for him to apologise for saying Muslim women who wear burqas look like bank robbers and letter boxes.

Jeremy Corbyn has been urged to "set the record straight" after a video emerged in which he appeared to cast doubt on Israel's right to exist.

Tory party chair Brandon Lewis today ordered Boris Johnson to apologise for saying Muslim women who wear burqas look like bank robbers and letter boxes.

John McDonnell called for a new Anti-Nazi League group to be formed to take on the rise of the far-right.

Labour has been plunged into a fresh row after lawyers for one of their MPs hit out at a disciplinary probe launched into his behaviour.

Internet paedophiles will face tougher prison sentences as part of a Government crackdown on online child porn.

A senior Conservative has accused Boris Johnson of "bigotry" after he said women wearing burqas look like letter boxes and bank robbers.

The Government must build more houses in the countryside or risk ushering Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street, a top Tory minister has said.

Nicola Sturgeon has demanded that Theresa May set out her Brexit ‘plan B’, as the pair prepare to meet for talks in Edinburgh.

Labour has dropped its disciplinary action against Margaret Hodge for calling Jeremy Corbyn "an anti-Semitic racist".

Two influential Muslim groups have accused Boris Johnson of "pandering" to the far-right after he said women wearing burqas look like letter boxes and bank robbers.

A senior Labour member was today suspended after he accused Tom Watson of being “bought” by Jewish donors and compared him to biblical backstabber Judas Iscariot.

The imam who stopped a right-wing extremist from being beaten up after he drove a van into Muslim worshippers has hit out at the Government’s record on tackling Islamophobia.

Boris Johnson has been branded a "pound shop Donald Trump" after he said Muslim women who wear burkas looked like bank robbers and letter boxes.

460,000 houses being planned for land that will be released from the Green Belt, while the percentage of ‘affordable’ homes built continues to fall.

Tom Watson has hit back after receiving a deluge of abuse on social media for speaking out against Labour’s anti-Semitism problem.

Jeremy Corbyn has today apologised to Jewish people over the “hurt that’s been caused” by anti-Semitism in the Labour party and said it is his responsibility to root it out.

Tom Watson has called for Labour to drop its disciplinary action against Margaret Hodge and Ian Austin - as he warned the party will "disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment" if it does not tackle its anti-Semitism crisis.

Jeremy Corbyn is facing calls to sack his equalities spokesperson following claims she branded a former member of staff a "dyke".

Ministers are being urged to stop families being “pulled into poverty” over the summer holidays, as a top foodbank charity revealed a spike in requests for help during the school break.

Businesses should be made to explain the reasons behind any gender pay gap in their workforce and lay out how they plan to close it, MPs have said.