Boris Johnson has been criticised after congratulating right-wing Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban on his re-election.

Theresa May has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he “will be held to account" if his regime is found to be responsible for a chemical attack which left dozens of his own citizens dead.

Home Office minister Victoria Atkins has been left embarrassed after she was unable to say how many police officers there are in the UK.

Amber Rudd has urged influential figures in the music business to play their part in tackling rising gang violence.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for a ceasefire followed by a political solution in Syria as he refused to blame Bashar al-Assad for a chemical attack in the country which left dozens dead.

Top Labour figures have piled into Amber Rudd after she claimed not to have seen a Home Office report into serious crime which was later leaked to the media.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg today refused to rule out joining a new political party aimed at capturing the political centre ground.

Boris Johnson has condemned the “deeply disturbing” gas attack in Syria which left whole families - including small children - dead or seriously injured.

Campaigners will be forced to make it clear who paid for online ads in a bid to halt election interference, under plans being announced by the Government.

Foreign Office minister Mark Field has hit out at his boss Boris Johnson for branding Jeremy Corbyn the Kremlin’s “useful idiot”.

Cuts in police force numbers are likely to have fuelled the surge in violent crime, according to a leaked Home Office document.

Top Labour MP Harriet Harman says she has accepted an apology from Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch for hacking into her website in order to spread Tory propaganda.

A former deputy Labour leader has warned the party is “in danger of disintegration” under Jeremy Corbyn.

Angela Rayner has condemned local Labour members who forced their MP to flee a meeting over her support for a demonstration against anti-Semitism.

A Conservative rising star has admitted "hacking" into the website of a Labour opponent to alter its content in favour of the Tories.

A new political party created by Lovefilm tycoon Simon Franks has been operating for more than a year and has access to millions of pounds in funding, it has been revealed.

David Gauke has said the decision that almost saw serial rapist John Worboys released from prison was his “responsibility entirely” as he vowed ministers would learn from the case.

Amber Rudd has denied claims that police cuts are behind the recent surge in gang violence in London - but pledged a raft of new measures to tackle it.

More than half of the electorate think Labour has a problem with anti-Semitism to some extent, according to a new poll.

Wildcats could be reintroduced to the English countryside in an effort to reduce the grey squirrel population, it has been reported.

Jeremy Corbyn is a “useful idiot” for the Russian government by refusing to blame Vladimir Putin for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, Boris Johnson has declared.

Spain’s foreign minister Alfonso Dastis has said that he hopes to reach a deal with the UK on Gibraltar by the summer.

Aviation minister Baroness Sugg has announced plans to make the sector ‘greener’ by cutting down on plastic used on flights.

Michael Gallagher, the head of the Metropolitan police’s organised crime command, said that arrests were not enough to stop the killings in London.

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn on Labour’s NEC tried to prevent disciplinary action being taken against party members, leaked minutes show.

UKIP has been branded “virtually dead” after fielding 75% fewer candidates in the May local elections.

Labour MP David Lammy has suggested he is not a shadow minister because he is black.

Remain campaigners have attacked the Government after it emerged tens of thousands of pounds were spent on a state visit by the King of Spain - during which he sparked a row with Gibraltar.

Jeremy Corbyn is among a host of London Labour MPs demanding to meet Theresa May and Amber Rudd in a bid to tackle the recent surge in knife and gun crime in the capital.

Labour is set to pile pressure on Jeremy Hunt to save nursing bursaries by exploiting the Conservative partnership with the DUP.

Granting Northern Ireland special status to effectively keep it in the EU after Brexit would lead to a return of loyalist paramilitary violence, Lord Trimble has warned.

MP and peers have lost dozens of iPads which were bought with thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Labour's new general secretary has been criticised by one of the party's most senior MPs over her decision to place a top official on gardening leave.

Labour members could be given more powers to oust the party's MPs, one of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies has revealed.

David Gauke has insisted homeowners should be able to defend themselves against an intruder in their home after a pensioner was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Russia has compared the UK to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and warned the Government it is "playing with fire" by accusing it of being behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal.