Michael Gove privately discussed plans to keep Britain in the European Union's single market if Theresa May fails to strike a Brexit deal, it has been reported.

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.

Six months ago Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP said: “We will maintain a free-flowing border at Dover, we will not impose checks at the port, it is utterly unrealistic to do so. We don't check lorries now, we're not going to be checking lorries in the future. I’m clear that it cannot happen.”

Councils across the UK fear leaving the European Union without a deal could lead to civil unrest and shortages of food and medicine, it has emerged.

Labour will consider putting plans for a universal basic income in its next election manifesto, John McDonnell has revealed.

Theresa May will cut short her holiday in Lake Garda to try and sell her Brexit plan to Emmanuel Macron in France later this week.

Boris Johnson is Tory members' favourite to be the party's next leader for the first time in two years, according to a new poll.

The BPF launches the industry's vision for minimising marine litter and ensuring no plastic packaging reaches landfill by 2030, but argues that "a plastics tax wouldn’t just harm efforts to tackle plastic waste, it would cause significant damage to a great British industry".

The BSA has today published its response to the FCA Interim Report into Competition in the Mortgage Market.

It is pleasing that the FCA recognises that the mortgage market works well for the vast majority of borrowers, says the BSA.

Jeremy Hunt has called on France and Germany to urge Brussels to relax its tough Brexit stance amid the growing risk of a no deal outcome.

Four lanes of the M20 could be used as a 13-mile long lorry park for up to four years after Brexit, documents drawn up by two Tory councils have revealed.

"Seeing Build UK portray tier one contractors like industry pioneers is the ultimate insult," says the National Federation of Builders.  

A senior Cabinet minister has warned that a ‘no deal’ Brexit could trigger a new recession.

Jeremy Corbyn is under increasing pressure to back a second EU referendum, as Labour activists prepare to force the issue at the party’s annual conference.

MPs have accused the Government of “shocking” indecision over what the UK's immigration system should look like after Brexit.

The Westminster and devolved governments should agree updated rules on where powers are held to avoid repeating the row which broke out over the Brexit bill, MPs have said.

A former minister has accused Downing Street of withholding details of its plans on how to handle a no deal Brexit.

Here is a summary of this morning's briefing for lobby journalists by the Prime Minister's official spokesman.

Downing Street has denied claims that the army will be drafted in to help dole out emergency supplies in the event that Britain crashes out of the European Union without a deal.

Half of Britain's voters would now support a second referendum on membership of the European Union, a new poll has revealed.

On Tuesday 24 July, MPs in the House of Commons were heard to repeat ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’.

Veteran Labour MP Frank Field has blasted back at critics after losing a confidence vote for siding with the Government on Brexit.

The armed forces are on standby to help dole out medicines, food and fuel to vulnerable communities if Britain crashes out of the European Union without a deal, it has emerged.