Theresa May has called on the European Union to "get on with" negotiating a Brexit deal - as she admitted that failing to reach an agreement would be bad for the UK.

Read the full text of Theresa May's speech on the future UK-EU trade deal here.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) welcomes the Prime Minister’s ambition for a comprehensive trade agreement, calling on the Government to take into account the planks of the Construction Industry Brexit Manifesto published in November 2017.

Downing Street has hit back at the White House after Donald Trump said he planned to slap huge tariffs on imported steel.

A senior Sinn Féin MP has said the party will not take up its Westminster seats despite calls for them to take part in crucial Commons votes on Brexit.

Keith Richards, Managing Director of Engagement at the Chartered Insurance Institute, comments:

NOAH chief executive Dawn Howard says: “There was much of interest in the Prime Minister’s Mansion House address, with relevance to the animal medicines sector.

As Prime Minister Theresa May is set to announce more detail on the Government’s Brexit negotiating stance in the final ‘Road to Brexit’ ministerial speech, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) urges the Government to publish the long-awaited Brexit position paper on financial services as the insurance and financial planning profession divides over its desired future regulatory relationship with the EU.

MPs are in line to receive an extra £1300 a year from next month when their salaries rise by 1.8%.

The collapse of the construction and services giant Carillion was extensively covered in the news at the start of the year. For most commentators, Carillion’s liquidation was about how a superficially successful company could accrue such large debts or dwelt on the politics of how the government kept awarding Carillion contracts to deliver public services when it had already issued a profit warning.

Young people will be hardest hit by the government’s approach to Brexit. It is for Theresa May to ensure she doesn’t sacrifice their futures on the altars of ideology, writes Seema Malhotra

Theresa May will vow to strike the most ambitious trade deal with the EU that the world has ever seen after Brexit.

Theresa May has warned Donald Tusk that EU proposals which would effectively keep Northern Ireland in the customs union after Brexit are "unacceptable".

Conservative MP Michelle Donelan writes following her Westminster Hall debate on Pensions auto-enrolment in which she notes that only one in seven self-employed people are part of the scheme with 75% of employees already benefitting.

Labour would crack down on Bitcoin because it is “a gigantic Ponzi scheme”, Diane Abbott has revealed.

Cabinet ministers have called on Theresa May to make changes to a major Brexit speech just 24 hours before she makes it.

A prominent Conservative donor has pledged to financially back the Liberal Democrats’ campaign for a second referendum on Brexit.

Theresa May has come under fresh pressure over Northern Ireland after a clip surfaced of her saying there would "have to be" a hard border if Britain left the EU.

The European Parliament has rejected the offer by Theresa May to grant permanent residency to EU migrants who arrive in the UK after Brexit - despite it amounting to a major climbdown.

Annual house price growth slows to 2.2% and prices fall 0.3% month-on-month, according to a report released today by Nationwide.

Violence will be sparked in Northern Ireland if the Good Friday Agreement is breached in the pursuit of a hard Brexit, a former top aide to Tony Blair has warned anti-EU campaigners.

Ruth Davidson has condemned Boris Johnson’s ‘casual disregard’ over the fractious Irish border issue after he equated it to boundaries between London boroughs.

Tony Blair will today call on the European Union to change its rules around freedom of movement as part of a bid to halt Brexit.

An influential group of MPs have warned that the Government's negotiations on the future of the car industry are "an exercise in damage limitation".