The Latest Breaking News from Westminster

The British Hair Consortium wants VAT on labour costs to be cut from 20% to 10% in the Spring Statement.

Concerns have been raised repeatedly that the iconic Westminster building could face a Notre-Dame style blaze if restoration work is not completed

The protest came ahead of a debate on the future of farming by MPs in the Commons.

SENIOR Labour MP Diane Abbott was excluded from a meeting with Keir Starmer – with her treatment branded “appalling” by Westminster veterans.

A man has scaled one of the buildings at Westminster carrying a Palestine flag.

Baroness Manningham-Buller said a rule change argued for by Conservatives would serve only to prevent genuine harassment victims from coming forward.

British politicians think they exercise a moderating force on strongmen. In practice, ‘diplomacy’ and ‘pragmatism’ only ease their path, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…

The UK Picture Editors’ Guild awards night will be held on April 1 at Church House in Westminster, central London.

Five fraudsters named and shamed after receiving fines totalling £3,000 in a council-led crackdown

In a sign of growing fears in Downing Street at Reform’s surge in the polls, Keir Starmer will warn Nigel Farage’s policies are ‘alien’ to the needs of working people