In a speech on Wednesday, Tom Watson said a single-issue Brexit election may not break the deadlock in Parliament – something only a second referendum can achieve with certainty.

Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis.

Confirmation that Boris Johnson was heading to Downing Street was greeted by a fall in sterling — and a new round of warnings for Irish business to buckle up for a rough ride.

Since the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) was created 22 years ago, it has lifted millions out of poverty, sent millions of children to school, and saved millions of lives through vaccination programmes and other innovative initiatives.

Britain under Boris Johnson will lack the status to lead in important global multilateral development efforts, argues former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.

British water and power firms are trying to soothe nerves over nationalisation, in the event of a Labour government, although some fund managers and lawyers doubt so-called Corbyn-proofing will work.

The referendum was in 2016 but the UK still doesn’t know when it is leaving the EU – or even if it is leaving at all. How did it all come to this, asks Christopher Fear

Our lone parents have the second highest rate of severe, persistent poverty among lone parents across the 15 most developed EU countries

British prime minister Theresa May’s “humiliating” defeat in the House of Commons increases the risk of a disorderly Brexit, the Government has warned.

When it comes to our economy, things can turn with lightning speed, says Kyran Fitzgerald

The Labour Party is seeking to restore town councils around the country, believing it was a “mistake” to scrap them in the last government.

Implementing sentencing guidelines is long overdue and, if properly implemented, could have a serious impact on the administration of justice, says Michael Clifford

This is not a ‘do-nothing Dáil’: Of 61 acts passed, 56 were government bills, but we also encourage private members’ bills from opposition, says Joe McHugh.

Theresa May accused Labour of betraying Britons over Brexit as she faced calls to put the country ahead of her Cabinet's "oversized egos".

The UK’s Jeremy Corbyn may have found a way to make good on his pledge to nationalise the British energy industry without spending almost €140bn buying up the six biggest utilities, writes Rachel Morison

Stopping Brexit is a more important priority than Labour winning the next election in Britain, former British prime minister Tony Blair suggested as he criticised the party's strategy under Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour leader mocked the Tories saying they "are certainly not strong and they are definitely not stable".

Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a potentially divisive clash over Brexit at Labour's annual conference after delegates agreed not to push the issue to a vote.

The Government has rejected calls for a UK reparations fund for victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks.

A DUP MP has said his party could support a Labour motion in the British Houses of Parliament calling for an end to the public sector pay cap in the UK's NHS.

Labour is committing itself to continued UK membership of the EU single market and customs union during a transition period following the official Brexit date of March 2019.

A serious issue has arisen over the continuation of Nóirín O’Sullivan as Garda Commissioner, writes Michael Clifford. Yes, the response to that might be what’s another issue?

A serious issue has arisen over the continuation of Nóirín O’Sullivan as Garda Commissioner, writes Michael Clifford. Yes, the response to that might be what’s another issue?

Jeremy Corbyn is hitting the Home Counties with a promise to tackle the housing crisis as he continues his blitz of marginal parliamentary seats.

Espionage at the very heart of the government has always occurred. Johanna Lowry-O’Reilly looks at some of the more famous cases in the United Kingdom.

“Stop saying the universal social charge (USC) is likely to go. It will never go...”

Jeremy Corbyn has said he would "love" another general election, adding there is "no question at all" that Labour would win.

Philip Hammond has warned failing to secure a Brexit deal would be "very, very bad" for Britain ahead of the start of exit talks in Brussels on Monday.

Pragmatism over principle has been the hallmark of Enda Kenny's time as leader, suggests Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

The Labour manifesto promises a "better future for our country", Jeremy Corbyn said as he set out his blueprint for government in the UK.

Families of soldiers killed in the IRA bombing in London's Hyde Park said they have been made victims "three times over" in the years since the atrocity.

A year after the ‘worst election we’ve ever had’, Labour leader Brendan Howlin insists that his party can return to power, writes Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Any future decision on water will be a political one and nothing to do with good sound public policy, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

An Oireachtas committee now looks set to recommend that the estimated 989,000 households who paid get some form of refund. 

The British prime minister and the new US president are meeting today for the first time, in Washington, and her best strategy may be an offer of friendship to the isolationist, says John Lloyd.

Another member of Cabinet has declared that Irish Water customers should have their money refunded.

Ireland has taken in just 550 people caught up in the ongoing migrant crisis despite vowing to offer a home to 4,000 by next year.

‘You don’t win a strike,’ Paddy Cardiff used to say. ‘When it’s over, you try to recover from it’, writes, Fergus Finlay.

Saturday’s inaugural meeting of the Cork north central branch will uphold party’s values of fairness and equality, say joint Social Democrat leaders Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy.