Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon speaks to Boris Johnson from Cornwall, where the Prime Minister is hosting the first G7 summit - representing most of the world's biggest economies - since the Covid...

We are in Cornwall ahead of the G7 summit.

At the G7 summit in Cornwall, we saw a Prime Minister far less hopeful than he was just a few weeks ago - telling this programme the Government must be cautious as it decides whether to delay lifting...

In today's political environment it's not just the message the politicians are promoting - but whether anyone is listening.

While questions were being asked about Boris Johnson's behaviour over Covid lockdown parties in Westminster - he was more than 4,000 miles away on a visit to India.  

Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure from his own backbenchers to let MPs debate and vote on new coronavirus laws before they are introduced.  

The Speaker let rip at the President for "racism" and said he would withhold consent.

Boris Johnson following David Davis out the door gives those Tory Brexiteers who want to storm the Downing Street barricades all the spur to action they need. Mr Johnson took a while to make his mind...

The day's events have heaped yet more pressure on the government.

I am told the EU negotiators left one recent meeting with the impression that David Frost’s greatest desire was that they didn’t go out and tell the media he’d come empty handed.

No 10 is saying there will be no TV debates cluttering up your screens in this election.

The government says it's releasing all the material that's relevant to the Covid Inquiry. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised more than a dozen times for breaking Covid lockdown laws.

The thorny question of the Irish border after Brexit was on the agenda when the Prime Minister met the Irish Taoiseach at a summit today. Mr Varadkar warned that a possible Brexit deal could collapse...

The government needs to get a grip on the coronavirus crisis, Sir Keir Starmer has warned, as he clashed with Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions over testing, statistics and public trust....

If MPs are not visible in their constituencies, they should expect to be judged by the electorate. That's the warning from Downing Street, even though Boris Johnson hasn't backed an outright ban on...

Despite driving to his parents home in Durham, a journey which even some Conservative MPs say was in breach of the lockdown rules, Dominic Cummings has tonight been backed to the hilt by Boris...

Labour has accused Boris Johnson of “running scared”, after he failed to attend today's emergency commons debate on MPs’ standards. 

Two weeks ago, Sinn Féin followed up their victory in last year's Stormont elections with another historic first  - becoming the largest party in Northern Ireland's local government.

David Cameron may have been at his most diplomatic to persuade MPs to back airstrikes on Syria, but his claims over the scale of Syrian opposition ground forces have raised doubts.

In a letter he said the government couldn't expect to formulate new laws and defend democratic norms abroad if it was not seen to be committed to the observance of the law.

That defeat for the government was of a scale few had contemplated. Some blamed the PM’s words to MPs last night. Some said the crowd mentality seIzed people and they joined the herd. Several former...

A big question in Westminster today is which Tory MPs are considering sending a letter to the 1922 Committee in order to trigger a vote on Boris Johnson’s leadership of their party.

Professor Jim Dornan is a world renowned gynaecologist living on Northern Ireland’s “Gold Coast,” the prosperous stretch of County Down peppered with picture window residences. He’s one of Northern...

The latest photos to emerge from Number 10 show the prime minister drinking with colleagues around a table littered with booze.

“Are you shouting slogans or changing lives?” That was the question Labour leader Keir Starmer threw at hecklers during his first in-person conference speech as leader. 

Theresa May has just started to do something Tory Prime Ministers haven't done for a very long time and conduct a phone-round of trade union general secretaries.

Labour is in the lead by 11 points in “red wall” seats, according to an exclusive poll commissioned by Channel 4 News.

Christian Wakeford crossed the floor to Labour, accusing the Tories of "trying to defend the indefensible and doing so gladly".  

The dogs that didn't bark, measures at the heart of the Tories' failed election gambit now dropped, hover like a cloud over proceedings.

The political spending watchdog is launching an investigation into how the Prime Minister's refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was funded, saying there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect that...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog - over allegations that he may have failed to properly declare an interest.

It has been an eventful day at Number 10 with a number of key aides resigning as pressure grows on the prime minister.

The number of Covid cases may be rising at their fastest rate ever, but the government has resolved to stick to its current Covid restrictions in England. 

Am in Manchester following Jeremy Corbyn. He's packed 1,000 supporters into a hall for his campaign launch. The backdrop is his battle bus, driven into the venue on a near empty tank due to health...

In his first broadcast interview since losing his job Nick Timothy - Theresa May’s former joint chief of staff - discusses Brexit, his alleged ‘reign of terr...

Boris Johnson acknowledged for the first time today that Russia could end up winning the war in Ukraine. 

The former Cabinet minister Chris Grayling has failed to win a vote to chair an influential Commons committee, despite being Boris Johnson's choice for the role.

The prime minister's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of not being fit to run the country.

No one is protecting Britain's democratic processes from interference by the Russian state.

Boris Johnson has been warned by both the US and the EU that he should not unilaterally rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol which the UK agreed after Brexit, as ministers consider whether to bring...

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in New York to sell his vision of post-Brexit Britain to world leaders as they gather at the United Nations.

Voters in Northern Ireland will elect a new assembly next week.

The former prime minister Boris Johnson has been referred to police by the Cabinet Office over claims that he broke lockdown rules by inviting friends to Chequers during the pandemic - claims which...

It is - says the Health Secretary - our civic duty and personal responsibility to follow the instructions. But did Dominic Cummings?

As the Conservative conference gets underway in Manchester, Boris Johnson has told haulage companies that the solution to the shortage of HGV drivers is increasing their pay rather than more immigr...

The Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has accused the former Chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton of spreading "falsehoods" in a spectacular and public row - after his dismissal last month....

The odyssey of Brexit reaches a new weirdness on Thursday. Len McCluskey will be walking up Downing Street for talks with Theresa May. The leader of Unite, sworn enemy of the Tories and the establi...

Twelve parties. Twenty fines. No names yet revealed.

I've spent the afternoon taking the temperature of Labour MPs after their party's decision to back 100 per cent devolution of income tax to Holyrood. The temperature is at morgue chiller levels.

Theresa May has been warned by senior Conservatives not to negotiate with Labour over Brexit.

10 minutes is a long time in British politics tonight. Both the Chancellor and the Health Secretary have resigned from the Government - in his letter Mr Sunak declared  "we cannot continue like...

Downing Street admitted today that Boris Johnson did know of concerns about the sexual behaviour of the MP Chris Pincher before he made him Tory deputy chief whip earlier this year.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has given his clearest indication yet that he's preparing to make another U-turn on his mini-budget, endorsed by the Prime Minister Liz Truss.

The battlelines have been drawn for a major fight in the House of Lords over the government's Illegal Migration Bill, with Justin Welby branding it “morally unacceptable”.

The Guardian's document is a draft of a White Paper that No. 10 had hoped would be published in final form about now, spelling out UK immigration policy post Brexit. The fact that we are seeing a...

Sue Gray's initial report into Downing Street's lockdown parties singled out "failures of leadership and judgment", with 12 events across Government now under investigation by the police.

Gary Gibbon reports from Downing Street.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was today forced to quell growing market unease over his low-tax, high borrowing strategy with a promise to set out more details in November, along with independent costings.

Tumbleweed is floating past Westminster this week. The crunch votes on Thursday have had the life crunched out of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFA28NoiLPA Tonight we publish a poll from new kids on the psephological block, Focaldata. It is a big sample and they've rammed in extra data in their own version of...

Visitors to the executive suites floor of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, where the government’s top people held court this week, have been told there is already an expectation that we will soon be...

There has rarely been a more bizarre day in British politics. 

The Speaker has rebuked the Government for releasing more details of tomorrow's Budget to the media early. 

One of the less bizarre things about yesterday was that Boris Johnson made his Parliamentary hairdresser an OBE in his resignation honours list. It's what he seems to be doing to his own party that...

When Boris Johnson's former top aide Dominic Cummings appeared before the covid inquiry yesterday he was quizzed about his misogynistic messages about a civil service colleague.

Conservative MP Paul Scully has apologised for suggesting there are 'no-go' areas in some UK cities - prompting accusations of Islamophobia. He said it's language he 'regrets'.

Cabinet members who aren't on the specialist sub-committee that's supposed to be guiding Brexit negotiations got a sneak preview of the emerging Brexit policy yesterday just before full Cabinet. The...

Boris Johnson has said MPs who break Commons rules must be punished.  

Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat and Labour MP Lisa Nandy discuss the revolutionary qualities of Brexit - and how it could change the UK’s political system fore...

Conservative MPs called for harder sanctions to be imposed immediately, and the prime minister even suggested that UEFA should scrap its plan to hold the Champions League final in St Petersburg in...

Boris Johnson is facing a backbench rebellion over a change to his plans for social care in England.

A defiant Boris Johnson has insisted that  “nothing and no one” will stop him carrying on as British prime minister and “delivering for the British people”. 

Three more conservative MPs withdrew their support from the Prime Minister today.

'The constant revolutionising of production, everlasting uncertainty and agitation - all fixed relations are swept away, all that is solid melts into air.'

A study by the Government suggests that as many as 17 per cent of people in London - and 5 per cent of the rest of the country - could have coronavirus antibodies, according to the Health Secretary

Some of the cabinet took rather a while to voice their support after his grovelling apology in the Commons yesterday.

Boris Johnson has called for the resignation of a senior member of the Privileges Committee after allegations were published online that Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin had also attended a party...