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Former chancellor Philip Hammond has ruled out making a bid for the vacant position of chair of the Treasury select committee, City [...]

Boris Johnson fired the first shots in a new Brexit battle with the EU on Thursday, just hours into his first full [...]

Boris Johnson oversaw one of the most brutal cabinet culls in UK political history tonight, replacing a string of big-name [...]

Boris Johnson threw down the gauntlet to Brussels in his first speech as Prime Minister as he vowed to take [...]

Boris Johnson will officially become Prime Minister on Wednesday afternoon after meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace. It was revealed [...]

Boris Johnson’s victory in the Conservative leadership race was never in doubt, and in truth neither was the scale of [...]

The political world has thrown up some unexpected events in recent years, but Boris Johnson failing to win the Conservative [...]

Jeremy Hunt accused Iran of “state piracy” yesterday as he announced the UK was shunning the US in favour of [...]

Rebel Tory MPs helped defeat their own government today in a bid to stop the next Prime Minister suspending parliament [...]

Theresa May hit out at the growing “uncompromising absolutism” of politics as she reflected on her failure to deliver Brexit [...]

Philip Hammond has warned it is “terrifying” that leading Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg will have influence in a future government during [...]

Boris Johnson is considering shutting down parliament at the end of October to stop MPs blocking a no-deal Brexit. According [...]

Theresa May believes it is “completely unacceptable” for Donald Trump to tell four congresswomen of colour to “go back” from [...]

Batches of antisemitism complaints were assessed by staff working in Jeremy Corbyn’s office – despite claims the Labour leader and [...]