Theresa May has backed plans to let people officially change gender without medical checks.

Theresa May will today hold a head-to-head with former US President Bill Clinton to discuss the political deadlock in Northern Ireland.

EU leaders are set to rebuff Theresa May in her quest to move the Brexit negotiations onto discussions over trade, it has been reported.

Universities must guarantee free speech or face penalties from the new higher education regulator, the Universities Minister has said. 

A quarter of the lowest-paid workers in the UK are stuck in their jobs with next to no chance of earning more money, new research has revealed.

The Government was left red-faced tonight after a proposal to pause the rollout of its flagship Universal Credit benefit system passed unanimously in the House of Commons.

Theresa May will today tell EU citizens living in the UK they can stay after Brexit as she reveals a deal on the controversial issue is within “touching distance”.

Jeremy Corbyn will meet with senior European officials in Brussels today in an attempt to end the impasse in negotiations between the UK and EU, Labour has said.

The EU Withdrawal Bill is set to be delayed until at least mid-November amid fears of a major Tory rebellion, according to a report.

A Tory MP's time will be "better spent" officiating at a Champions League match rather than taking part in a Commons debate on Universal Credit, Downing Street has suggested.

Follow our minute-by-minute coverage as Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn go head to head. 

Northern Ireland is on a "glide path" to direct rule unless the province’s major parties reach a deal to restore devolution by the start of next month, James Brokenshire has said.

Wages have continued to lag behind prices for the sixth month in a row despite hundreds of thousands more people being in work, official figures have revealed.

Charges to call the Universal Credit hotline will be scrapped from next month in a major climbdown by the Government in the face of a mounting Tory rebellion.

Theresa May is facing a ministerial revolt over her plans to freeze tuition fees, it has been reported.

Tory MP Douglas Ross will miss a crunch Commons vote today, as he will be running the line at a Champions League match in Spain. 

Theresa May is facing a Commons rebellion as Tory backbenchers consider backing Labour plans to pause the rollout of Universal Credit. 

The UK is facing a terror threat at an unprecedented "scale and pace", the head of MI5 has warned in a rare public intervention. 

The British government is not being "realistic" about the size of the divorce bill it will have to pay to leave the EU, according to the president of the European Parliament. 

Brexit will be "like the Blitz" - but the UK will be able to make it work, according to the head of a leading think tank.

Tory splits over the Brexit negotiations have once more been laid bare after Amber Rudd said it was “unthinkable” that the UK could leave the EU without a deal.

A senior Treasury advisor has quit her role just weeks before the Budget, in a fresh blow to Philip Hammond. 

Boris Johnson has accused MPs of "trivialising" the disaster in Libya after he was pressed three times to apologise for a gaffe in which he spoke of “clearing the dead bodies away”.

Reversing Brexit would have a “significant” and “positive” impact on the British economy, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Jeremy Corbyn's former bag carrier has backed Anas Sarwar to be the new Scottish Labour leader.

Inflation hit 3% in September for the first time since March 2012, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.

Last year saw a record surge in hate crime, with a spike in incidents during the EU referendum campaign and after terror attacks. 

Facebook and Google are “bad for democracy” and threaten the future of local media by “taking all their content and reproducing it for free”, a former Culture Secretary is set to say.

New peers could be limited to serving just 15 years in the House of Lords in a bid to slim down the upper chamber, according to a new report.

Theresa May would have kept the Conservatives’ majority at June’s election were it fought under the new boundary proposals, a study has revealed.

European leaders are dragging their feet on a deal which would protect EU and British citizens after Brexit in a bid to garner more concessions from the UK, according to reports.

Brexit negotiations between the UK and European Union must be "accelerated" if the two sides are to strike a deal, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker have said.

Newborn babies are missing out on vital checks because of a fall in the number of health visitors, according to Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington North seat could cease to exist under planned changes to constituency boundaries.

Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke has been condemned after he failed to answer four letters from a powerful Commons committee about the rollout of Universal Credit.

Theresa May has launched a fresh diplomatic offensive in a bid to kick-start the stalled Brexit negotiations.