Politics

MPs from across the political spectrum showed off their four-legged friends while competing for the coveted Westminster Dog of the Year Award

Downing Street refused to guarantee the beleaguered HS2 high-speed railway line would run to Manchester as originally promised amid spiralling costs and delays

Leaving the EU has hardly been a success so far - but is it too late to turn back the clock and re-join?

The Commons Standards Committee has issued a ruling following an investigation into the Prime Minister and public statements issued by Downing Street

Community general secretary Roy Rickhuss and GMB leader Gary Smith have written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over electric arc furnaces at Tata's Port Talbot plant

The Labour leader is meeting police and prosecutors at Europol - the EU's law enforcement agency - where he wants to reach agreement on ways to stop small boats "before they get in the water"

We despair at the state of lawless Britain where people brazenly steal without any fear of the consequences, and we deplore how shopworkers are threatened for doing their job

Labour's Steve Reed called on Environment Secretary Therese Coffey to resign if her department is found to have broken the law through its regulation of sewage discharges

Boris Johnson stood down as an MP earlier this year ahead of a brutal report that found he lied and lied over Partygate after the Mirror exposed lockdown-busting gatherings in No10

France's Emmanuel Macon is expected to host the Labour leader at the Elysee Palace - in a blow to Rishi Sunak's efforts to build a bromance with the French President

Negotiations between Tata and the Government over taxpayer support for the plant are said to be progressing, with an announcement possibly due by the end of the week

Rishi Sunak branded the rise in shop thefts 'unacceptable' as he vowed to work with police chiefs to tackle the epidemic that is sweeping Britain's high streets

A debate will take place in Parliament to raise the alarm about hundreds of chemists shutting - as campaigners urge the Government to stump up more cash for the high street lifelines

The star, full name Annie Macmanus, told an inquiry into misogyny in the music industry that she was often 'the only girl' on line-ups and sound engineers would take up her personal space

Voters head to the polls on October 19 to replace Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries and disgraced ex-whip Chris Pincher in a potential headache for the Tories

Labour leader Keir Starmer attacked the Prime Minister for constantly 'protesting that nothing is his fault and trying to tell anyone who is still listening that everything is great'

The state pension is due for a bumper rise next year as the typical wage increased by 8.5%, but the Conservatives have hinted this could be slashed to 7.8% instead

Wildlife activists hit out at Conservative backbenchers who they accused of delaying progress in getting the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill into law

A Government minster insisted the party acted swiftly after chiefs from the intelligence agency warned about the possibility the MP hopefuls were agents for Beijing

Frontbencher Stephen Kinnock issued the plea to the Government as he addressed industry experts at the UK Metals Expo in Birmingham and outlined Labour's plan for the sector

Addressing MPs the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary said the cull was "designed to be rammed through while people were looking back the other way"

Birmingham Council, which declared itself effectively bankrupt last week over a £650million blackhole, is far from England's least financially stable local authority, a report shows

Former Tory Chancellor George Osborne said this morning he would be "very tempted" not to give the bumper state pension rise - expected to be 8.5% - if he was still in post

The Local Government Association has warned that costs will fall on ordinary taxpayers unless Parliament is given time to approve regulations to raise fees for developers

Two reports by the Electoral Commission and theLocal Government Information Unit warn of the added pressure on polling station staff because of voter identification rules