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Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has been forced to apologise to parliamentary watchdogs after he failed to declare thousands of pounds in rental income.
As the leader of the DUP at Westminster, Nigel Dodds could hold the key to unlocking the Brexit impasse. If Theresa May can secure the support of his party for her deal, it could be enough to pass this week. With the public at large growing tired of the fractious debate, is he feeling the pressure to act? He talks to Sebastian Whale
A Labour frontbencher has quit her post after voting against calls for a second EU referendum.
MPs are due to debate whether the Government should try to push back the UK's exit date beyond 29 March after giving the PM another shot to get her deal through next week. Members are once again hoping to throw a spanner or two in the works. Here are the bids that John Bercow has chosen to be put to a vote.
Downing Street was on Wednesday night at war with its own whips after ministers were allowed to defy an order to effectively support a no-deal Brexit.
Theresa May has been forced to hand Conservative MPs a free vote on a key amendment to her Brexit motion later this evening following pressure from her Cabinet colleagues.
MPs will tonight vote on whether to block a no-deal Brexit. But backbenchers - as usual - want to make the life of the Prime Minister dificult. Here are the two John Bercow has called for a vote.
David Cameron has blasted hardline Tory eurosceptics as he urged MPs to delay Brexit and rule out a no-deal departure from the EU.
Theresa May's Brexit plans have been dealt a fatal blow after the DUP and Tory eurosceptics rejected the changes she won from Brussels.
Brexit could be lost “in the next couple of weeks” if MPs fail to back Theresa May’s deal, Jeremy Hunt has warned.
Theresa May has been told that she faces an “inevitable” defeat in getting her Brexit agreement through the Commons without concessions from the EU on the Northern Ireland backstop.
Dr Phillip Lee has been a vocal proponent of a second referendum since he quit the Government in June 2018. The Tory MP admits that his forthright stance has not helped his chances to become the next party leader. But with the Conservatives drifting towards a “Ukip-lite” position on Brexit, the former minister says he plans to continue speaking out. He talks to Kevin Schofield
From grammar school to the green benches, Diane Abbott has made a habit of proving people wrong. Along the way, she has encountered prejudice, resistance and received her fair share of criticism. But her political journey is not over yet. The Shadow Home Secretary sits down with Sebastian Whale
Labour is moving to oust MPs who split off to form the new Independent Group from their Commons committee seats, PoliticsHome understands.
Members should recognise the importance of public trust in our standards system, and to support our ongoing efforts to improve it, writes Kate Green
More than 160 MPs from across the political divide have written to parliamentary watchdogs demanding a better pay increase for their staff.
Diane Abbott’s local Labour branch has come under fire after it backed a call for the party to come out fighting against claims of institutional anti-semitism.
Tory ministers who are mulling whether to leave their party have held secret talks with a member of the breakaway Independent Group of MPs, it has emerged.
Angry staffers working for MPs across the House of Commons have complained to parliamentary watchdogs in a major row over pay, PoliticsHome can reveal.
Change is happening – but altering the culture of Parliament will only happen in a meaningful way if we keep up this momentum for years to come, writes Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary watchdogs have sparked fury after they revealed MPs will see a pay rise of almost double that of their staff.
MPs will see their pay go up to just short of £80,000 a year from April, the body which sets members’ salaries has confirmed.
As she makes her pitch to be the next Speaker, Dame Eleanor Laing opens up to Sebastian Whale on her experience as a working mother, how a new generation is driving reform – and why we need less testosterone in Westminster
The starting gun on the race to become the next Commons Speaker has been fired as Dame Eleanor Laing confirmed she will run to replace John Bercow when he steps down.