Labour's membership has dipped below half a million after tens of thousands quit the party, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Education minister Anne Milton has resigned her post ahead of Boris Johnson taking over as Prime Minister and Conservative party leader.

Boris Johnson will have his Cabinet top team in place “by tomorrow night” after he swept to victory in the Tory leadership contest.

Boris Johnson vowed to deliver Brexit, unite the country and deafeat Jeremy Corbyn in his first speech as Conservative leader.

Labour backbencher John Mann has been appointed by Theresa May as an independent adviser to the Government on tackling anti-semitism.

Boris Johnson has won a landslide victory to become the new Conservative leader and is set to be sworn in as the UK’s next Prime Minister.

After another shambolic set of pilots, this Government must abandon its dangerous policy immediately, writes Cat Smith MP. 

Boris Johnson will rip up Philip Hammond's deficit reduction pledges to fund a series of tax breaks and spending commitments if he becomes Prime Minister, it has been claimed.

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

Labour has ruled out introducing a fully independent process for investigating anti-semitism allegations against party members.

A former minister has failed in a bid to force a vote of confidence in Boris Johnson before he has even been appointed Prime Minister.

Jo Swinson has been elected the new leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Controversial plans to make all Brits show ID at polling stations are set to go ahead - despite more than 1,000 have been denied a vote during trials.

Two senior Conservatives are facing questions over their links to a secretive foreign affairs group.

Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been charged with sexually assaulting two women, prosecutors have announced.

Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has resigned from the frontbench ahead of the new Prime Minister taking over later this week. Read his full letter to Theresa May.

Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has resigned from the Government ahead of Boris Johnson's expected Tory leadership win.

More than half of Labour members still want Jeremy Corbyn to lead the party into the next general election despite rows over the party's approach to Brexit and anti-semitism, a new poll has found.

Theresa May will chair a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee on Monday amid mounting criticism of the Government over Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf.

Boris Johnson has insisted that a "sense of mission" akin to the 1969 moon landings can ensure Britain leaves the European Union on 31 October.

Labour MPs have hit out at colleagues in the Shadow Cabinet who they say have been “actively complicit” in smearing whistleblowers on the party’s anti-semitism crisis.

Philip Hammond has announced that he will resign as Chancellor if Boris Johnson wins the race to become the next Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer has announced plans for a cross-party alliance with Cabinet ministers on the verge of quitting the Government in a bid to stop the next Prime Minister from pursuing a no-deal Brexit.

Amber Rudd has warned senior colleagues such as Philip Hammond that they must row behind the next Prime Minister or risk ushering in a Labour government.