Theresa May is reportedly set to double the recommended number of new peers in a bid to boost the Government’s chances of its Brexit bill passing through the upper chamber.

Moderate Tory MPs could quit to help form a breakaway party if a hard Brexiteer like Jacob Rees-Mogg succeeds Theresa May as leader, a minister has claimed.

The SNP have called Jeremy Corbyn "absolutely pathetic" after he refused to back a cross-party effort to keep the UK in the single market. 

Business groups and MPs have hit out at proposals that could see British companies hit with an extra post-Brexit VAT bill. 

A former boss of the Unite union has ruled out accepting a peerage from Jeremy Corbyn.

Boris Johnson has sparked a government rift by backing calls for special Brexit stamps after the Postal Services Minister branded them “divisive”. 

A Labour MP who quit the party's frontbench over its policy on the European customs union has said he did so in a bid to protect jobs in his constituency.

A Labour frontbencher has resigned after defying Jeremy Corbyn to back remaining in the customs union after Brexit, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Ukip leader Henry Bolton has told party members his new relationship with a model in her 20s must not distract from their “vital mission”.

Almost eight in ten Labour members want a second EU referendum, a new poll has suggested.

Increases in the national minimum wage could lead to jobs being lost to automation, an influential thinktank has warned. 

Top Labour MP Angela Rayner has said the party has adopted a “sh*t or bust” economic strategy because it has the “gumption to take a risk”.

Tony Blair has launched an outspoken attack on Labour's approach to Brexit - accusing the party of "timidity" for not campaigning to keep the UK in the European Union.

Britain's top mandarin has moved to reassure EU citizens working in the civil service that their jobs are not at risk as a result of Brexit.

A former Treasury minister has torn into Theresa May's top team, calling her Cabinet colleagues "clueless" about economics and branding Boris Johnson "ludicrous".

Theresa May is reportedly set to resist calls for a reshuffle of her top team and focus on rewarding up and coming MPs with junior ministerial jobs.

Government officials have reportedly suggested the UK considers signing up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bloc after Brexit. 

Labour MP Stephen Kinnock offers a potential solution to control freedom of movement into the UK and to retain access to the single market of 500 million consumers.

Liam Fox has fired a New Year’s message to pro-European campaigners, telling them to “get beyond the obsession with criticising Brexit”.

David Davis has kicked off the New Year with a warning to the European Commission not to "cherry pick" the future EU-UK economic relationship. 

The technology behind crypto-currency Bitcoin could transform the NHS and save lives, a member of the influential Treasury Select Committee has said.

Former Cabinet minister Priti Patel has called for a "thorough investigation" into Remain campaigners' spending during the EU referendum. 

So much has happened in the UK and across the world over the last 12 months, and as the holiday season draws closer there is a great deal of uncertainty. The implications of Brexit are still far from clear as negotiations proceed. The Trump presidency is creating tensions across the world, there is political and social unrest in a number of regions and many others are threatened by terrorist attacks, conflict and natural disasters.

“If your time to you is worth saving, then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times are a changing,” is a lyric by Bob Dylan and a pretty good summary of a tumultuous year. A year that has seen attention-grabbing events come and go with breath taking speed; a pace of change that we are also seeing in the world of work – a point made by contributors to our Future Risk video. And the response to this change, the lyric alludes, must be to keep paddling; particularly true as we are in the business of keeping people healthy and safe.