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Alain Tolhurst is Chief Reporter at PoliticsHome and host of The Rundown podcast each week.
A Labour MP has suggested the monarchy could be abolished after the Queen approved Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend Parliament.
Donald Trump has waded into the row over the parliamentary shutdown by saying it will be “very hard” for Jeremy Corbyn to call a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.
With the shock announcement that Boris Johnson is to ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament, the Prime Minister has thrown the almightiest of spanners in the plans of those opposed to a no-deal Brexit.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has agreed to chair a 'Citizens' Forum' aimed at plotting a way out of the Brexit crisis.
Labour has called on the Government to “immediately ban fracking” after a record-breaking earthquake hit a site in Lancashire.
Boris Johnson has claimed the UK will “easily cope” with a no-deal Brexit and dismissed suggestions it would lead to food shortages.
Boris Johnson has said the chances of striking a new Brexit deal with the EU are “improving” but are still ”touch and go”.
Philip Hammond has demanded an apology from Downing Street after he was accused of leaking documents warning about the impact of a no-deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson has hit back at Donald Tusk after he was warned that he will go down in history as “Mr No-Deal”.
Boris Johnson is planning to tell the EU he will withhold £30 billion of the so-called “divorce bill” if there is a no-deal Brexit.
Emmanuel Macron has rejected the idea a replacement for the backstop can be found in the next 30 days calling the controversial policy “indispensable” to a Brexit deal.
Net migration of EU nationals has fallen by two-thirds since the referendum, according to official statistics.
Angela Merkel has given the UK a 30-day countdown to come up with a replacement for the backstop or face a no-deal Brexit.
A no-deal Brexit is now the “most likely” outcome according to France ahead of Boris Johnson’s visit to try and re-open negotiations with the EU.
The public are increasingly convinced by Boris Johnson's clam Brexit will happen by 31 October "do or die", according to a new poll.
The future of HS2 hangs in the balance after Boris Johnson ordered a review into “whether” it should proceed.
Downing Street has accused the EU of being unwilling to renegotiate a Brexit deal after it rejected Boris Johnson’s call to ditch the backstop.
The EU has rejected Boris Johnson’s letter calling for the Irish backstop to be “replaced”, as the Prime Minister was accused of "not proposing realistic alternatives" to the border plan.
Pressure is mounting on Jeremy Corbyn to ditch Labour’s policy of getting a new Brexit deal as two of his closest allies said they want to stay in the EU whatever the circumstances.
EU citizens entering Britain will face “tougher criminality rules” the day after a no-deal Brexit, Number 10 have revealed.
Labour has backed calls for MPs to cut short the summer recess and head back to Parliament to work on blocking a no-deal Brexit.
Kwasi Kwarteng has dismissed the Government’s own dire warnings about a no-deal Brexit as “scaremongering”.
More than 100 MPs have written to Boris Johnson urging him to recall Parliament because the country is facing “a national emergency” over Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn has urged MPs opposed to no-deal to back his plan to lead a caretaker Government and “seize the opportunity before it’s too late”.
Tory MP Guto Bebb has claimed a short-term Jeremy Corbyn government would be “less damaging” than a no-deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson chose his words very carefully when he claimed MPs and the EU are in “collaboration” on Brexit, and it is all about winning the blame game in a no-deal scenario.
Boris Johnson has hit out at a “terrible collaboration” between MPs who want to block Brexit and the EU, saying it is forcing the UK towards no-deal.
Boris Johnson has been urged to “end the scourge of poverty pay” after new figures revealed staff working in a Government department earn well below the Real Living Wage.
Amber Rudd has denied she is a “sell-out” after appearing to reverse her warnings about the negative impact of a no-deal Brexit.
Boris Johnson has identified 9 September as the key date in the upcoming fight with MPs who want to block a no-deal Brexit, according to a senior Government source.
MPs who want to block a no-deal Brexit are running out of options and now stand little chance of stopping Boris Johnson from going through with it, according to a leading think tank.
Labour’s split on a second Scottish independence referendum has deepened after the party's deputy leader Tom Watson spoke out against it.
Boris Johnson has ordered an urgent review of sentencing policy, saying “the punishment must truly fit the crime” for offenders.
Fewer than five women have taken up the opportunity to become infantry soldiers – more than nine months after all Armed Forces roles were made open to them.
The number of tax exile non-doms in the UK has fallen to a record low amid fears of a Jeremy Corbyn government and uncertainty over Brexit.
A senior Tory has quit the party blaming Boris Johnson's "dangerous and damaging" Brexit strategy.