Sajid Javid has leapfrogged Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg to become Conservative members’ top choice as next party leader, according to a new poll.

Theresa May has urged Conservative members to submit 1,000 new policy ideas in a bid to help the party win the next general election.

Jeremy Corbyn is facing renewed pressure over his Brexit position after Unite members backed a second referendum on EU membership by nearly two to one.

Theresa May’s cash boost for the NHS will make "no difference whatsoever" to the immediate funding crisis gripping the health service, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has urged Scots to rally behind proposals for a sea bridge linking their country with Northern Ireland.

Gavin Williamson is set to step up his campaign for a defence budget boost as military grandees urge members of the Royal family to join the push, it has been reported.

Politicians were partly to blame for the tragic killing of Jo Cox because of the atmosphere created by the EU referendum debate, the chaplain for the Houses of Parliament has said.

Women often feel “patronised” and “diminished” by medical practitioners, Jackie Doyle-Price has said.

Michael Gove physically ripped up Theresa May’s preferred customs plan with the European Union, it has been reported.

Soaring numbers of Britons have acquired EU citizenship since the Brexit referendum, it has been revealed.

The city where a Russian former spy was poisoned earlier this year will host next year’s Armed Forces Day celebrations, Theresa May has announced.

Labour has thrown its weight behind a Tory MP’s bid to outlaw homophobic chants at football matches.

European Council president Donald Tusk has issued a "last call" to Theresa May to spell out Britain's plan to leave the European Union or risk crashing out of the bloc.

Ministers have been warned that they cannot leave next week's Cabinet meeting at Chequers without finally agreeing the UK's Brexit position - even if it means going without sleep.

Downing Street has rejected claims by Danny Dyer that Brexit is a "mad riddle so no one knows what it is".

Six Conservatives are battling it out in one of the most arcane and private elections in major party politics. The contestants are vying to seize the levers of party machinery on the board of the National Conservative Convention of volunteers. PolHome gives you the definitive guide to who's who. 

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

There is still a "huge and serious" gap between Britain and the rest of the European Union on Brexit, the EU's chief negotatiator has warned.

An ex-Foreign Office boss has condemned Boris Johnson for his “flippant” approach to Brexit and his recent attack on business.

MPs have rounded on the Home Office after it provided “no credible explanation” for twice detaining two children of the Windrush generation.

Theresa May has heralded a British company winning a multi-billion pound contract to build Australian warships as an “enormous boost” to the UK.

European leaders are putting their citizens' lives at risk by refusing to agree a security deal with the UK after Brexit, Theresa May has declared.

Chancellor Philip Hammond is under fresh pressure to ditch his hardline stance on public spending after all three civil service unions rejected "shambolic and contemptible" Treasury plans to keep their pay capped.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has brushed off an attack on him by Cabinet colleague Liz Truss, insisting he is the "best of friends" with the Treasury Secretary.

Theresa May was ambushed at the start of a crunch EU summit - and presented with the shirt of England's World Cup rivals Belgium.

Nicola Sturgeon has been forced to drop her new education minister just a day after handing her the job as controversial comments she made about transgender students resurfaced.

A former Cabinet minister has accused Theresa May of trying to obstruct a Parliamentary probe into the torture of terror detainees.

Ministers should push for an extension to the Brexit process to avoid Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal, a powerful Commons committee has said.

The British government turned a blind eye to the United States' "inexcusable" treatment of terror detainees in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, a powerful parliamentary committee has concluded.

Labour has called for a "radical overhaul" in the regulation of former senior ministers’ abilities to take up lucrative posts on the back of their experience in Government.

Penny Mordaunt will announce plans to channel a slice of British aid funding into helping Commonwealth veterans who served in the armed forces.

The UK could fail to hit legally binding emissions targets if it does not take "urgent action", the Government's official advisers have warned.

Two Chinese railway firms are reportedly leading the race to operate HS2 trains amid a crisis among British companies who are unwilling to take on the financial gamble.

Britain is heading for the "very worst" Brexit deal because Theresa May is being undermined by some of her own ministers, Nick Timothy has declared.

Liz Truss has been rebuked by Number 10 after using a speech to launch an attack on Cabinet colleague Michael Gove.

Plans to let Labour members elect the party's council leaders have been branded "unworkable" by a senior local government figure.