Max Jeffery

The Government is set to rush in sweeping emergency laws in an attempt to tackle the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Sajid Javid would have slashed income tax in the upcoming spring budget had he not resigned as Chancellor, he revealed last night.

Keir Starmer is on course for a decisive win in Labour’s leadership contest, while Angela Rayner is the frontrunner in the deputy race, according to a new poll.

Sajid Javid’s friends have said the Prime Minister’s team undermined him in an effort to force the Treasury into spending billions on public services and tax cuts.

Boris Johnson has cancelled plans to meet President Trump this month, after the US government criticised his decision to let Huawei help build Britain's 5G network.

Emily Thornberry has been eliminated from the Labour leadership race after failing to secure enough nominations from local party branches and affiliated groups.

A group of new Conservative MPs from the north of England have called on the Prime Minister to cancel HS2 after reports this week showed the project is a decade behind schedule.

The Metropolitan Police has been criticised after announcing it will start using facial recognition cameras to target serious offenders in London.

Boris Johnson will sit down for talks on Britain's post-Brexit future with the president of the European Commission next week.

Jeremy Corbyn has written to Boris Johnson to demand a Privy Council briefing on the United States’s decision to kill an Iranian military chief. 

Ministers are planning to build two scientific research bodies in the Midlands and the north of England in a bid to deliver on Boris Johnson’s promise to “unite and level up” regions across the UK.  

Brussels will find it difficult to negotiate a trade deal with the UK in the 11-month timeframe set out by Boris Johnson, the President of the European Commission has cautioned. 

An angry backlash has erupted after former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith was given a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.

Downing Street has been urged to make it "abundantly clear" that any Tory MP who backs Jeremy Corbyn to thwart a no-deal Brexit will be kicked out of the party amid calls for rebel Guto Bebb to lose the whip.

Boris Johnson will "straighten out" Brexit if he becomes Prime Minister next week, US President Donald Trump has said.

Gloria De Piero has resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench and announced she will not stand in the next election because of a “lack of tolerance" in the Labour Party.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry has been taken to hospital after a cycling accident in Westminster.

Boris Johnson has said that immigrants into the UK should learn to speak English, because there are “too many parts of the country where it is not the first language”. 

Boris Johnson looks almost certain to be the UK's next Prime Minister after a poll of Conservative Party members gave him a huge lead over Jeremy Hunt. 

Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced plans to introduce 'Helen's Law', which could see murderers who refuse to disclose the location of a victim's body being denied parole.

Jeremy Hunt has called on his Conservative leadership rival Boris Johnson to face him in televised debates, as he declared: "If you want the job, you have to turn up for the interviews.”

Donald Tusk has accused the UK of squandering the six-month Brexit postponement - as he warned the next Prime Minister they cannot reopen Theresa May’s exit deal. 

The Greenpeace activist who was hauled out of a dinner at Mansion House by Mark Field said the suspended Foreign Office Minister should “address his behaviour.” 

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of ditching a pledge to halt privatisation in the NHS after it emerged more than £100 million-worth of health contracts are currently out to tender.

European governments have criticised Theresa May’s request for a Brexit extension until 30 June, warning that the UK could end up leaving the EU without a deal. 

British passports without the words "European Union" on the front cover are being issued by the Government.

Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor has been accused of misleading the public over her son's conviction for drug offences.

John McDonnell has ruled out offering the Scottish National Party an independence referendum in a bid to win their backing for a Labour government.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has urged his Conservative colleagues to get behind Theresa May's plan for leaving the EU - and warned them not to put Brexit "in peril.".

Eight Cabinet ministers have discussed advocating a Norway-style Brexit deal if Theresa May's plan is voted down by MPs, it has been reported.

Sam Gyimah has become the latest minister to quit the Government over Theresa May's Brexit deal.

Frank Field, who resigned the Labour whip in August, has suggested that the UK should join the European Economic Area (EEA), while it negotiates a long-term free trade arrangement. 

Philip Hammond is looking to announce a rise in income tax thresholds in Monday's Budget, a year earlier than planned.