A profit warning issued by construction giant Carillion last year did not prompt a single top minister to meet the firm before it was awarded public contracts worth more than a billion pounds.

Boris Johnson has suggested that a massive bridge should be built across the Channel to link Britain and France.

Theresa May is in line for fresh embarrassment after it emerged Donald Trump plans to snub her offer to “clear the air” at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Britain must continue paying into the EU budget and accept European laws if it wants to maintain access to the single market after Brexit, Emmanuel Macron has told Theresa May.

Pro-EU campaigners have laid into the Government for not beginning its search for a Brexit digital guru until 18 months after the vote to leave the bloc.

Just seven months after entering parliament, Kemi Badenoch has been handed a key role inside CCHQ overseeing her party’s candidate selection process. But the Saffron Walden MP, considered a rising star of the 2017 intake, is determined to stay grounded. She talks to Sebastian Whale

Jeremy Corbyn has suggested he could support mandatory reselection of Labour MPs, saying politicians should "all be accountable, all of the time". 

Karen Bradley has said a new round of Stormont talks set to take place next week mark the “the last opportunity” to get the Northern Irish executive up and running again.

A Conservative rising star has hit out at "puritanical" Millennials for taking offence at the storylines in US comedy Friends.

Theresa May has reportedly broken with fifty years of tradition to refuse George Osborne a seat in the House of Lords.

The UK will spend an extra £44.5m on border security in France in a bid to ensure checks continue on the other side of the Channel, it has emerged.

Tory vice chairman Ben Bradley has been forced to apologise for a second time after further offensive comments he made online in the past emerged last night. 

Ukip leader Henry Bolton was spotted with his girlfriend, Jo Marney, last night just days after claiming they had broken up amid a row over racist texts. 

Jeremy Corbyn was hit by a fresh Brexit rebellion tonight as dozens of Labour MPs backed calls to keep the UK in the single market and customs union after it quits the EU.

NHS workers tell of seeing patients die from long ambulance waits and staff being forced to rely on foodbanks in Labour's latest party political broadcast.

Labour has insisted Jeremy Corbyn will definitely lead the party into the next election, amid claims some of his colleagues fear he will be too old.

A Conservative MP who suggested unemployed men should have vasectomies to stop them having more children will not be sacked as a vice-chair of the party, Number 10 has said.

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Jared O’Mara will embark on a “phased return” to work following his suspension by Labour over sexist and homophobic comments, it has emerged.

A Conservative MP tasked by Theresa May with reconnecting the party with young people once called for the unemployed to have vasectomies to stop them having children.

Theresa May has appointed a new minister for loneliness as part of a raft of measures to tackle the issue inspired by the late MP Jo Cox.

Labour has called on the UK statistics watchdog to rebuke Boris Johnson after he claimed Britain will have even more than £350m a week extra to spend after Brexit.

The head of Labour's disciplinary body has been ousted by Momentum in the first major show of strength since Jeremy Corbyn supporters won control of the party's national executive committee.

Tory MP Anna Soubry has accused Boris Johnson of 'conning’ voters after he reignited the row over the Leave campaign's claim that Britain sends Brussels £350m a week.