Michael Crick

It’s part of a renewed effort to get the DUP to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

She promised Conservative MPs that she would step down before the 2022 General Election. Now Theresa May’s former policy adviser George Freeman has called for her to resign straight away in order to “unite the country”. But if she does go, who will take over? Various Conservative leadership contenders have been jockeying for position. Our…

Both parties have faced criticism – including over comments from the Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom.

Evidence has emerged of the involvement of Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle in disciplinary action being taken against Labour members accused of anti-Semitism. 

The fact that Chris Grayling managed to amass two hugely costly disasters in one day simply resulted in the customary backing of Downing Street.

The Labour MP and ally of Jeremy Corbyn Chris Williamson has been suspended from the party pending an investigation, after he apologised for suggesting Labour had “given too much ground” in the way it responded to complaints about anti-Semitism.

Earlier this week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote to the Prime Minister urging her to back a deal with five demands, but the offer has gone down badly with some Labour MPs who want to remain.

Theresa May has sought to reassure business leaders and politicians in Northern Ireland that there will be no return to a hard border on the island of Ireland.

We have been in Blyth, in Northumberland, to ask the local MP and former miner Ronnie Campbell if he might be tempted by such a deal. 

The Information Commissioner has fined the Leave.EU campaign and Arron Banks’s Eldon Insurance a total of one £120,000 for “serious breaches of electronic marketing laws”.

She was jailed for three months today, but the law allows her to continue to work as an MP. She has, however, been thrown out of the Labour Party.

He’s under pressure from many of his own MPs to back a second referendum on Brexit. But so far Jeremy Corbyn has proved reluctant to commit. The Labour leader has long been seen as something of a Eurosceptic, and now some are accusing his top team of advisers of discouraging him from supporting what some call a People’s Vote.…

A Mr Johnson once famously said: “The present age abounds with a race of liars who are content with the consciousness of falsehood.” That was Samuel Johnson in 1753. Today Boris Johnson – no relation – gave a speech on his Brexit ideas. But after falsely claiming he never issued warnings about immigration from Turkey during the…

Jeremy Corbyn has been speaking to Labour activists in Hastings – where his party came within less than 350 votes of taking the seat from Amber Rudd in 2017. Mr Corbyn told supporters that if Theresa May refused to budge and left the country facing a No Deal Brexit, he would then consider other options – including a second…

So what happens now? From delaying Article 50 to calling a general election, to pushing on regardless, rarely can the future have looked so confusing and so uncertain.