Theresa May has appointed Kit Malthouse, MP for North West Hampshire, as minister of state for housing and planning. 

The Government claims that housing is a priority yet this constant chopping and changing in terms of the person leading the charge would suggest otherwise, says FMB. 

The Government has published its negotiating position on the future relationship between the UK and the EU after Brexit, following a cabinet summit held on 6 July at the prime minister’s country residence in Chequers. 

Forcing housebuilders to fit infrastructure for charging electric vehicles is among plans to be unveiled as part of a major Government transport strategy.

Labour general secretary Jennie Formby has dismissed criticism from Jewish groups and MPs of the party's latest attempts to crack down on anti-Semitism.

Jewish leaders have joined a chorus of anger against the Labour party after it refused to accept the internationally-agreed definition of anti-Semitism.

SMEs are already the most likely to meet affordable housing requirements and typically build homes for local people, says NFB.

The Government must urgently reconsider the rollout of Universal Credit (UC) and heed the growing warnings about the damage the policy has caused, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England's Lois Lane makes five key suggestions to the government to ensure more genuinely affordable homes are built in rural areas, ensuring that villages and market towns remain vibrant and thriving places for future generations to live and work.

Matt Thomson, Head of Planning at the Campaign to Protect Rural England responds to George Freeman MP's article on the Five-year land supply

Esther McVey has issued a humiliating apology to MPs today after being accused of making "incorrect" claims about Universal Credit by the Government's own spending watchdog.  

Esther McVey has been accused of making "incorrect" claims about her department's flagship welfare shake-up by the Government's own spending watchdog.

Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has asked the Law Commission to look at improving the laws which allow leaseholders to manage their own buildings.

Ahead of Rural Planning Week, George Freeman MP explains why he is deeply concerned about the impact of the National Planning Policy Framework and the 5-year Land Supply on villages and towns across rural Britain.

Cuts to council budgets will leave authorities stripped of crucial services to the point that they are unrecognisable, the Conservative leader of the Local Government Association has warned.

Ministers will take action to end conversion therapies which claim to “cure” peoples’ sexuality under new measures to tackle the inequalities faced by LGBT people in Britain.

Renters would be given minimum tenancies of three years under plans being drawn up by ministers to stop them being "forced to uproot their lives" regularly.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has urged Scots to rally behind proposals for a sea bridge linking their country with Northern Ireland.

Labour has thrown its weight behind a Tory MP’s bid to outlaw homophobic chants at football matches.

With reduced attendance and dwindling parishioners’ donations, Dame Caroline Spelman MP spoke at the National Churches Trusts annual conference on how to create a more sustainable future for the UK’s Christian places of worship.

A senior Northern Ireland police chief has warned that Brexit is being used by dissident IRA groups to recruit new members.

The leader of the Conservative party in Wales has quit just days after two run-ins with senior UK colleagues.

Individuals and employers should pay a new contribution into a dedicated fund set aside to help pay for the growing demand for adult social care and implement funding reforms, with the current system ‘not fit to respond to the demographic trends of the future’, MPs have concluded.

The annual National Conservative Convention board elections are happening again right now. Tories who want to get their hands on the levers of party machinery are vying for the attention of a tiny electorate of around 800 local chairmen and the primary contact method is through the Royal Mail. The arcane NCC race happens every year but slips completely under the radar because it is so private and hardly contested. Only in an internal Conservative party election could an outsider candidate with an OBE go up against a teddy bear salesman from Guildford. Emilio Casalicchio talks to some of the contestants and a few Tory bigwigs to find out what the race is all about.