Britain will pay to retain membership of a key EU crime-fighting operation at least through a post-Brexit transition period, it was announced today.

Amber Rudd today launched a brutal broadside at her Cabinet colleague Boris Johnson – saying his latest intervention on Brexit was badly timed and amounted to “backseat driving”.

Lord Chancellor David Lidington has blasted Labour for refusing to distance itself from a proposal for illegal strike action – saying the party could be a threat to the rule of law.

Boris Johnson has repeated the highly contentious Vote Leave claim that the UK will be able to spend £350m more on the NHS after Brexit.

The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth may not be able to leave its home port of Portsmouth, if a national pay dispute involving tug boat crew steams ahead.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers' Union has commented on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education, setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of NASUWT - The Teachers' Union has commented on the announcement of the new National Funding Formula by the Secretary of State.

Christmas deliveries to 650 Co-op stories in London and the south east could be hit, if a dispute over the sacking of two disabled workers at its Thurrock distribution centre escalates, Unite, the country’s largest union, has warned. 

Opposition MPs have rounded on ministers for dodging two votes they were set to lose - in what has been deemed a "bad week for democracy".

The former governor of the Bank of England has said he does not believe the Brexit negotiations "are going in the way that we might hope".

Theresa May will make a major speech in Florence on 22 September to set out her vision for the next stages of the Brexit talks.

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard has launched a blistering attack on the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg last night warned senior figures in business and government against complacency in the fight to improve “pernicious” social immobility in Britain.

The Government is seeking to achieve a "bespoke" deal for the City of London after Brexit, Philip Hammond has said.

The Minister of State of Digital, Matt Hancock, addressed the Good Things Foundation summer reception in the House of Lords, calling its work ‘critically important’ for the growth of digital skills in the UK.

A new report by EY reveals that the biggest driver of talent shortage is competition between public sector bodies and infrastructure programmes, with £500bn of projects in the construction pipeline to 2021.

Jeremy Corbyn has refused to condemn Len McCluskey over his threat to call illegal strike action over public sector pay.

Delegates at the TUC Congress were today told that, for the sake of thousands of students, parents and staff, the Government must urgently  commission an independent inquiry into last weeks’ shock announcement that Wakefield City Academies Trust is to abandon 21 schools it operates.

The UK will regret its decision to quit the European Union, Jean-Claude Juncker said today as he laid out his vision for the bloc's future.

Workers continue to feel the pinch as wages failed to keep up with the pace of rising prices for the fifth month in a row, official figures revealed today.

'Government con trick' sees billions stripped from budgets to den real-pay rise to lower-paid 55 per cent of workers.

Wages have risen faster than house prices in most parts of Great Britain in the last the decade, according to a new study.

Universities could be forced into linking the fees they charge to the value of the course studied, Philip Hammond has said.

Shocking new analysis shows 75% of TA apprentices are paid just £3.50 an hour.