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Jess Phillips has suggested she would back re-joining the European Union if she wins the Labour leadership contest.
Sadiq Khan says voters “got it right” by not backing Labour putting Jeremy Corbyn into power last month.
Boris Johnson has come under fire for his failure to respond to killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Suleimani by America.
A plan by the Ministry of Defence for Russia to join NATO was dismissed as “farcical” by ministers, according to newly-unsealed official minutes.
Labour is "the resistance to Boris Johnson", Jeremy Corbyn has claimed just weeks after the party's crushing general election defeat.
The Government has revealed the first 14 high streets across England to benefit from a £1billion fund to improve town centres.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is helping run a review into the party’s disastrous election result.
Emily Thornberry has promised to quit as Labour leader if the polls shows she could not win an election.
A Labour MP has called on the party to expel one of its members after they unleashed a “barrage of abusive and false tweets” in the wake of the election.
Boris Johnson saw his EU Withdrawal Bill easily pass its latest hurdle in the Commons as MPs signed off for Christmas by wishing their colleagues “a merry Brexmas”.
Clive Lewis has announced he is standing to replace Jeremy Corbyn saying he will “unleash” the Labour movement.
A former Labour MP has won £75,000 in libel damages from a union and the owner of a far-left website.
Zac Goldsmith has been given a peerage after losing his seat so he can stay on as environment minister and attend Cabinet.
Boris Johnson has announced he will ban public institutions from holding anti-Israel boycotts after they were labelled a “thin disguise for anti-Semitism” by a former Tory chairman.
The Brexit department is to be “wound up” after the UK leaves the EU on January 31, the Government has confirmed.
The Government is set to hand new powers to British judges in lower courts to overturn rulings by the European Court of Justice after Brexit.
Keir Starmer has said last week’s general election defeat has not dented the need for “a bold and radical Labour government” as he all-but confirmed that he will run to be the party's next leader.
A raft of Labour MPs tore into Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership team at a meeting in Parliament to discuss their disastrous election results.
Nursing students will get a new £5,000 a year grant from next September to help with the cost of their courses.
The Tories under Boris Johnson are now more popular with the working classes than the middle classes, according to a new poll.
The SNP will be the “real opposition” to Boris Johnson in Parliament after winning 80% of Scottish seats, the party's Westminster leader has declared.
Voters were three-times more likely to fail to back Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership than they were over Brexit, according to a new poll.
Boris Johnson has vowed to deliver “closure” on Brexit so the UK can “let the healing begin” after sweeping to victory in the general election.
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed he will not contest another election and formally kicking off the race to replace him as Labour leader. Here are the main contenders.
The 2019 General Election delivered a remarkable majority for Boris Johnson but along the way a host of big names lost their seats. Here is a rundown of the most high-profile casualties.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have cast their votes in the election as the last poll of the campaign suggests the Tories still enjoy an 11-pont lead over Labour.
Labour has closed the gap on the Conservatives but Boris Johnson in still on course for a small Commons majority, according to a major new poll.
With the two main party leaders at historically low levels of popularity, this election campaign has been dominated by calls for voters to deny either the Tories or Labour a majority.
Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson are travelling across the UK in the final day of campaigning offering competing visions of the UK if they win Thursday’s election.
The father of one of the London Bridge terror attack victims has accused Boris Johnson of using his son's death as "an opportunity to score some points in the election".
A Labour frontbencher has forecast that Boris Johnson is going to win the election as voters "can’t stand Jeremy Corbyn".
Boris Johnson was labelled a “disgrace” for pocketing a reporter’s phone when he was asked to look at the image of a sick toddler lying on the floor of a hospital because there were not enough beds.
Pro-EU campaign groups have united to condemn Labour and the Liberal Democrats for “failing” Remain voters and handing the Tories a Commons majority.
Boris Johnson is embarking on a blitz of Labour-held marginal seats in the final 72 hours of the election campaign as he tries to secure a Conservative majority.
Labour is unveiling £4billion plans to electrify the country's entire bus fleet and bring “services into the future” as part of their Green Transformation Fund.
The Liberal Democrats are announcing they would re-introduce standing at top-flight football if they got into Government.