The Bar Council respond to the Conservative promise of £15million to speed up prosecutions for rape should they win the General Election. 

A Conservative government will ensure that nobody who needs social care will have to sell their home to pay for it, the Health Secretary has promised.

The Conservatives have vowed to introduce "lifetime" fixed rate mortgages to make it easier for renters to get on the property ladder if the party wins the general election.

The Conservatives have pledged to look at once again doubling the amount of time a person can spend in prison for assaulting emergency workers from one to two years.

Labour will embark upon the biggest council house building programme since the Second World War if it wins the election.

Anahita Hossein-Pour reports on how a small party is hoping to have a big impact in tackling abuse in politics - and help women "take back power".

The Lib Dems have suspended a general election candidate accused of repeatedly posting anti-semitic comments online.

A Conservative government would introduce a major tax cut for millions of workers by increasing the National Insurance threshold, Boris Johnson has revealed.

The Liberal Democrats are the first major party to unveil their election manifesto. But what are the key pledges?

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to extend free schools meals and bring in a freeze on rail fares in their election manifesto.

The Conservatives have finally suspended a candidate who claimed British Jews visiting Israel were returning to the UK as “brainwashed extremists”.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn clashed bitterly but failed to deliver any knockout blows in the first televised debate of the general election.

Britain's elections watchdog has urged Conservative campaigners to act "responsibly" after the party rebranded its Twitter account to ‘factcheckUK’ during a live TV debate.

A senior Labour councillor has accused Jeremy Corbyn of lying live on television about Labour's attempts to tackle anti-semitism in the party.

Schools will get a £10bn budget boost and 20,000 more teachers if the Liberal Democrats win the election, the party has promised.

Victims of crime and the media would be able to attend parole board hearings under a raft of pre-election promises made by the Conservatives to overhaul the justice system.

Labour's new tax plan would impact around 1.6m higher earners, but the likely returns from the policy are"highly uncertain", a major think tank has warned.

Twitter has threatened to take "decisive action" against the Conservatives if they repeat a move to re-brand an official party  account as “FactCheckUK”.

Jeremy Corbyn should not resign immediately if Labour loses the election, according to Len McCluskey.

A Tory candidate in a marginal seat has sparked a row after claiming nuisance neighbours should be forced to live “in a tent, in the middle of a field” and pick crops all day.

A Brexit Party MEP has quit over its "failures" to represent Leave voters and because it had allowed a candidate who posted homophobic views online to run for next month's general election.

The Green Party has pledged to spend £100bn reducing the UK's carbon emissions to zero by the end of the next decade.

Labour's election manifesto could contain a pledge to write off student debts John McDonnell has suggested.

The chairman of Keith Vaz's local Labour party has quit after a Jeremy Corbyn ally was picked to replace the disgraced former MP as an election candidate.