Statement from Mind's Head of Legal on today’s High Court ruling on Universal Credit

This Government is determined to protect millions of workers, and build a future free of workplace sexual harassment and violence, says Alok Sharma MP, the Minister of State for Employment.  

A top Tory minister has criticised Commons Speaker John Bercow for “sexist and demeaning” behaviour towards female MPs.

The Treasury Committee has today published a unanimously-agreed Report on Women in Finance. The Chartered Insurance Institute responded saying: 

The “poison” of Islamophobia has infected the Conservative party at every level, a Tory former co-chair has declared.

Labour activists have urged party bosses to reinstate a campaigner who was expelled following a clash with MP Ruth Smeeth at the launch of a report into anti-Semitism.

Conservative minister Sam Gyimah has torn into Oxford and Cambridge universities over a "staggering" lack of diversity in their top colleges.

Jeremy Corbyn has backed calls for an investigation into allegations of Islamophobia in the Conservative party.

The former chair of the Conservative Party has suggested the Tories are guilty of hypocrisy after ministers batted away calls for an investigation into Islamophobia.

Sajid Javid has denied that the Conservative party has a problem with Islamophobia.

Labour MP Chris Williamson has come under fire after attending a campaign event for an activist who was expelled from the party amid a row over anti-Semitism.

Thirteen NHS organisations have agreed to review their NHS Continuing Healthcare policies following the threat of legal action by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Ministers have torn into company bosses over their "shocking and pathetic" excuses for failing to appoint women to corporate boardrooms.

This Menstrual Hygiene Day, on 28 May, have a public conversation about periods: with a colleague, a friend, your family. We can all do something to break this bloody taboo, says Margaret Batty, Director of Global Policy and Campaign, WaterAid.

Labour has attacked Theresa May over a pledge to bring forward an “LGBT action plan" this summer - branding it "empty PR".

Baroness Berridge writes for PoliticsHome ahead of her Oral Question today in the House of Lords on ensuring the Commonwealth Communiqué’s commitment to eradicate forced marriage is realised and assessing its inter-relationship with forced conversion.

An aide to Labour chairman Ian Lavery has been condemned after saying Theresa May "would look better with a noose around her neck".

The Home Office has promised a ‘fundamental change’ in the way the country deals with domestic abuse. But does the political will exist to back up any change in the law with resources? James Millar talks to the minister in charge, Victoria Atkins, and MPs across the spectrum, about what needs to be done

A minority of UK men who pay to sexually access women’s bodies are driving this form of modern-day slavery. To end the exploitation and trafficking we must criminalise paying for sex, writes Gavin Shuker, the chair of the APPG on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade 

A child victim of a grooming gang does not exercise free will. That consent is still being taken into consideration by the police and the CPS in such cases is wrong, writes Lucy Allan

Britain should demand Governments ensure religious freedom and end persecution, writes Chris Philp

The Bar Council has issued a response to the Bar Standards Board’s announcement yesterday of a new plan to tackle the unfair treatment of female barristers, and has highlighted the role that the Bar Council will need to play in informing steps taken by the BSB in this area.

Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis has batted away calls to suspend a Tory councillor who was readmitted to the party at the local elections after sharing a racist joke.

John McDonnell has acknowledged that the row over anti-Semitism in Labour undermined its bid to seize a key London target seat at the local elections.