Liz Bates

Top Labour figures have urged Jeremy Corbyn to change policy and back continued UK membership of the single market and customs union beyond Brexit.

The Ministry of Defence spent more than £60,000 on mobile internet use for a single phone last year, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Jeremy Corbyn would be Prime Minister if he had listened to calls for a "progressive alliance" between Labour and other parties, a former shadow minister has said. 

Norman Lamb has highlighted the “yawning gap” in mental health provision in schools after 9 out of 10 teachers said they lacked adequate training.

Labour MPs have clashed over new rules which are set to hand more power to the left-wing of the party.

Leaving the European Union will cost the UK money rather than free up £350 million a week to spend on the NHS, according to a leading thinktank.

Tory grandee Ken Clarke has issued a stinging rebuke to Boris Johnson after his Brexit intervention, saying if Theresa May had a majority he would have been “sacked instantly”.  

The International Development Secretary will confront aid bosses over rules that prevent British aid money being used in the Hurricane Irma relief effort.   

A controversial plan to lower the number of MPs and MEPs whose backing is needed to get a candidate on the ballot in a Labour leadership contest is set to be adopted.  

The Liberal Democrat leader will call for cross-party unity to avert a looming Brexit "disaster", on the final day of his party’s conference in Bournemouth.

The social housing sector is facing a funding "crisis", as private landlords pocket billions in housing benefit cash, according to a damning new report.

Theresa May has stopped short of reaffirming her pledge to fight the next general election, saying she only that she would “make sure Brexit happens".

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will back rule changes designed to tackle anti-Semitic abuse at his party’s conference next week, a new report has said.

Labour cannot say whether it would give public sector workers a real terms pay rise until it has “seen the books,” according to a shadow minister.

Amber Rudd today launched a brutal broadside at her Cabinet colleague Boris Johnson – saying his latest intervention on Brexit was badly timed and amounted to “backseat driving”.

Furious Tory MPs have called for Boris Johnson to be sacked after the Foreign Secretary set out his Brexit vision just days before Theresa May’s crucial Florence speech.

An MP has revealed how a teacher told their class not to speak to his son because his father is a Conservative politician. 

Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has batted away rumours of a leadership bid, saying he has “no wish” to take over the Conservative Party.

Ministers have failed to recoup some £2bn in taxpayer cash that was wrongly paid to housing benefit claimants, PoliticsHome can reveal.

The Shadow Health Secretary is today calling on the Government to end the public sector pay cap in the NHS, saying it has been a “disaster” for the service.          

The health service is braced for a flu outbreak this winter, according to NHS Chief Executive Simon Stevens.    

The Government’s ‘light touch’ approach has led to increasing homelessness ‘in all its forms,’ according to a new report by the National Audit Office. 

Parliament officials are under fresh pressure to tackle a growing vermin problem after footage emerged of rats fighting over food on the House of Commons terrace.

The Tories’s £1bn deal with the DUP must be rubber-stamped by Parliament, the Government has admitted after being challenged by Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.

The Prime Minister’s Brexit demands for Britain are the ‘equivalent of a letter to Santa,’ the general secretary of the TUC has said today. 

Urgent reforms are needed to prevent young offenders from ethnic minority backgrounds becoming "the next generation" of adult criminals, a new report has warned. 

Labour have accused the Government of making a 'power grab' over an attempt to put the Tories in charge of a series of powerful Commons committees.

Sadiq Khan has said he backs the right of women to have an abortion, a day after Jacob Rees-Mogg sparked anger by saying he opposed it in all circumstances, including rape and incest.  

Traditionalist Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has been condemned after revealing he is against abortion even in cases where a woman has been raped.

It would be a "complete and utter disaster" for Britain if it were to fail to strike a deal with the EU on Brexit, the former head of the civil service has said.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for fundamental change in the way Britain’s economy is run as a new report reveals that UK growth is funding business profits as workers’ wages stagnate.  

Theresa May’s government will collapse next year because of Cabinet splits over Brexit, leading economists have predicted.

The DUP leader has said she is “disappointed” that Sinn Fein were quick to reject her proposal to restore the Northern Irish Assembly.

Labour’s Keir Starmer has defended his party’s stance over Brexit, saying its evolving position was part of a process of ‘development’ rather than a 'U-turn’.

Private landlords renting out substandard homes are being bankrolled by the taxpayer to the tune of £2.5bn a year, it has emerged.    

One of Theresa May's closest allies has warned Tory MPs to back the Government’s Brexit legislation or risk Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.