Theresa May has formally resigned as Conservative leader, a senior Tory source said.

It is often said all political careers end in failure, but few with such a spectacular a failure as Theresa May's.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has called for any regulatory alignment under Brexit to be applied on a UK-wide basis.

James Molyneaux stood out as old school even in the heart of the establishment, writes Gerard Howlin

Dáil Éireann sits again this afternoon after the summer recess, serene in the knowledge that alone of the five main legislative assemblies on these islands it is impervious to the possibility of effective change. 

The former taoiseach does no service to the memory of the Irish dead of World War One by denigrating the men and women of 1916, writes Gerry Adams

It was a state visit that changed the state of relations between Ireland and Britain for good. Here are some things we noticed along the way.

A proposed marriage between the Ulster Unionist Party and the British Conservatives appears to be in some disarray following a row over sectarianism and the name of the new coalition.

THE Conservative and Unionist Party has repeated its historic error of 1910 in relation to politics in Ireland.

THE Scottish domination of New Labour in the UK (evident surely to even the most casual observer of the political scene) naturally raises the question as to who and where are the representatives of the English in the House of Commons.