Liz Bates

The Government’s flagship Help to Buy housing initiative is facing criticism as new figures reveal it is funding buyers on increasingly high incomes.

Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti has piled further pressure on Theresa May to liberalise Northern Ireland’s abortion laws, branding the issue a “test” of the Prime Minister’s feminism.

England could be in line for a host of new national parks, under plans being considered by the Environment Secretary.

Unite has stepped in to buy a thousand tickets for Labour’s troubled music festival Labour Live following disappointing sales.

Home Office ministers have been accused of a “masterclass in incompetence” over a botched attempt to reform the criminal records checking scheme.   

A senior civil servant blamed for Amber Rudd’s disastrous select committee appearance that eventually lead to her resignation has been demoted.

The Bank of England is ready to step in to prevent an economic slump if Britain is plunged into a “disorderly Brexit,” Mark Carney has said.

Theresa May has blasted the SNP after the party was accused of trying to “bully” retailer Marks & Spencer into removing the term ‘British’ and the Union Flag from its products in Scotland.

Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit out at the Government’s controversial 100,000 annual migration target.

Boris Johnson has suggested fresh economic sanctions could be imposed on Venezuela following the “obviously rigged” re-election of Nicolas Maduro.

The Conservatives are too "joyless" and need to be more optimistic to win over sceptical voters, according to Ruth Davidson.

The Lords have inflicted yet another humiliating defeat on the Government today – this time on post-Brexit environmental protections.   

The troubled East Coast rail line will be taken back into public hands, the Transport Secretary has announced today.

Theresa May reportedly confronted leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg during a Downing Street meeting over post-Brexit customs options yesterday.

Theresa May today led MPs in heartfelt tributes to the late Dame Tessa Jowell, who died this weekend after a battle with brain cancer.

A Labour shadow minister has publicly backed a referendum on the final Brexit deal - in direct defiance of Jeremy Corbyn's position.

Jeremy Hunt today hit out at Boris Johnson over his recent customs union outburst as he urged his Cabinet colleagues to work on Brexit “as a team”.

A senior Labour frontbencher and top ally of Jeremy Corbyn will vow to bring the richest Brits to a “shuddering halt” in an all-out attack on financial inequality.

Crack cocaine has been found in a Home Office bathroom, sparking a police inquiry.

Former Attorney General and leading Brexit rebel Dominic Grieve has called for Boris Johnson to resign after the Foreign Secretary broke ranks to criticise Theresa May’s customs plan.

Theresa May has agreed to widen the inquiry panel looking into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire - after previously ruling out such a move.

The Foreign Secretary has declared that Britain “has no intention of walking away" from the Iran nuclear deal after Donald Trump dramatically pulled US support for the agreement.

Minsters are considering restricting British firms’ security cooperation with Europe, as the row over the EU satellite Galileo escalates.

Disagreement over the future of an inquiry into killings that happened during the Northern Irish Troubles caused a Cabinet “spat” yesterday, it has been reported.

Labour has slammed new voter identification trials amid reports of people being turned away from polling stations.

As a black, working-class, Geordie woman, who built a successful career in engineering, Chi Onwurah knows that improving diversity in industry is not just a moral imperative but an economic necessity. The Shadow Business Minister tells Elizabeth Bates why the push for gender equality is at the heart of Labour’s industrial strategy

Here is a summary of this morning's lobby briefing by the Prime Minister's official spokesman.

Jeremy Hunt has today launched an inquiry after it emerged that up to 450,000 women may have missed crucial breast cancer screenings due to an IT failure.

Peers are expected to inflict yet another defeat on the Government today - this time on proposals to prevent a hard Northern Irish border after Brexit.

New Home Secretary Sajid Javid could scrap the Government’s controversial net migration target of less than 100,000 a year, it has been reported.

A senior civil servant has been accused of costing Amber Rudd her job by passing the former Home Secretary false information on immigration removal targets.

Shadow health minister Lord Hunt could be facing the sack from Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench after voting for a second Brexit referendum.

Labour has urged the Government to end austerity and to invest in the economy as the latest figures show UK growth slowing.  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been threatened with a summons which would force him to face MPs next time he is in Britain.

Michael Gove has ditched plans for a blanket ban on controversial electric shock collars for cats and dogs.

A new “early warning system” to protect Parliamentary staff against bullying and harassment by MPs is set to be established.