A top Tory MP has suggested that tackling Britain’s housing crisis requires the same spirit and organisation seen during the Second World War.

Gang leaders and criminals could have council houses removed from their families in a plan to tackle violent crime which has been backed by a minister.

Former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has branded Boris Johnson a "buffoon" whose Brexit demands would ruin Britain and Ireland.

MPs from across the political divide have urged Theresa May to bring forward laws to legalise same sex marriage in Northern Ireland.

More than £2 million of taxpayers’ money has been spent on gagging orders for former House of Commons staff over the past five years, it has emerged.

The switch to Universal Credit - the Government’s flagship welfare reform programme - is hitting parents with upfront childcare bills that have reached £1,000, new analysis from Save the Children reveals. 

Ministers are under pressure to explain why their flagship 300,000-a-year new homes target has been left out of a key Government plan.

A Tory backbencher has taken a swipe at his colleague who controversially blocked plans to make ‘upskirting’ a criminal offence.

Theresa May has said that “vile extremism” will not break the UK ahead of a remembrance service to mark the Finsbury Park terror attack.

Thousands of public buildings are being sold off each year by cash-strapped councils, according to a community charity.

Ahead of her Oral Question in the House of Lords, Baroness Thomas of Winchester writes on improving the outcome of Personal Independence Payment assessments for PoliticsHome.

Changes to Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) are causing extreme stress to already vulnerable individuals, penalising homeowners for changes to their circumstances that are beyond their control, says Angela Crawley MP.

A Tory backbencher who blocked legislation to ban upskirting has had the entrance to his office littered with women’s underwear.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) agrees with Scott Mann’s argument that local authorities need to understand better the role of small sites, self-build and affordable housing in their own communities, as well as recognising his assessment of the big six house builders currently dominating supply. 

Nearly a dozen Conservative MPs are set to heap pressure on Theresa May over housing and urge her to adopt a set of radical ideas to “overhaul the broken market”.

A Conservative MP has sparked fury from his own colleagues after blocking a government-backed bid to make it illegal to take 'upskirt' photos of people.

Commenting on Government plans to relax the immigration cap, Punam Birly, Employment & Immigration Partner at KPMG UK said:

IPSE has today responded to National Audit office report which paints a damning picture of the government’s Universal Credit.

The Government has been accused of failing to take concerns around keeping an open Irish border after Brexit seriously by a powerful Commons committee.

Ministers have thrown their weight behind a Liberal Democrat bid to clamp down on people who take secret “upskirt” pictures of unsuspecting victims.

Following the publication of an assessment by the National Audit Office, disabled people appear to have been completely overlooked in the design and delivery of Universal Credit, says Scope.

Universal Credit has failed to deliver value for money and may end up being more expensive to run than the system it is replacing, the Government’s spending watchdog has revealed.

Today (Friday 15 June 2018) the National Audit Office (NAO) has released a damning report into Universal Credit (UC) – with a focus on how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has not done enough to protect and support ‘vulnerable claimants’ including disabled people and people with health conditions.

A year on from the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott blasts the government and the Conservative-run Kensington and Chelsea council in the wake of the blaze she argues must become "a turning point".