Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle oversees a debate (Image: UK Parliament)The controversial two-child benefit cap is set to be scrapped after MPs voted to abolish the policy. But the change, backed...

Reform UK MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick voted with Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap, it has emerged. It is believed that the pair ended up with Sir Keir Starmer's party in the aye...

Keir Starmer has ordered officials to draw up laws allowing Lord Peter Mandelson’s peerage to be removed “as quickly as possible”, Downing Street has said, while stressing there is also a...

Lord Mandelson faces a police investigation (Image: Getty)The Met Police has issued a major update after a number of politicians called for the force to investigate whether Lord Mandelson broke the...

Lord Mandelson has spoken out for the first time (Image: Getty)Lord Mandelson has spoken out publicly since further damning and embarrassing emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein were released by...

'We'd been on high alert' - How Jenrick's dramatic sacking and defection unfolded8 hours agoJoe PikePolitics correspondentEPAOn Wednesday afternoon in a large wood-panelled room in parliament, Robert...

Jenrick defects to Reform UK after being sacked by Tories27 minutes agoJennifer McKiernan,Political reporterandJoshua Nevett,Political reporterFormer Conservative shadow minister Robert Jenrick has...

Henry Zeffman: Jenrick sacking is huge moment for future of British right30 minutes agoHenry ZeffmanChief political correspondentGetty ImagesThis is not merely a big moment for Kemi Badenoch and for...

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three yearsJust nowDominic CascianiHome and legal correspondentEPAJury trials in England and Wales for crimes that carry a likely sentence...