Britain faces a potential political crisis as the House of Lords threatens to overturn the supremacy of the Commons.

A woman who lay in a crashed car beside her partner for three days in Scotland, despite the accident being reported days earlier to police, has died.

It may have been a very difficult and disappointing night for Labour and a cruel and punishing one for the Lib Dems.

By defying history to pull off a spectacular election victory David Cameron may yet have set in train events that will soon consign the United Kingdom itself to the history books.

Smashed and shaken by the sheer scale of its surprise election defeat, the British Labour Party now faces into months of soul searching as it chooses a new leader.

EVEN if you allow for the vanity that sometimes convinces us that this fleeting moment is the most historically significant, it is still very difficult to imagine that there has been, in the history of this State, a British general election result with the potential to have a greater impact on this island than the Conservatives’ resounding and totally unexpected victory yesterday.

Britain is facing weeks of political deadlock as both main parties seemed set to fall far short of a majority in Thursday’s election.

The British general election remained on a knife-edge after no party leader managed to land a killer blow at the final set-piece TV event of the campaign.

Nick Clegg said he was confident of remaining an MP despite a poll putting Labour ahead by two points in his constituency.

British prime minister David Cameron has revealed he is related to Kim Kardashian.

The British graduate unmasked in reports as the Islamic State (IS) executioner known as Jihadi John was a model employee, “calm and decent” and “very good with people”, his former boss has said.

How Britons vote in the general election in three months could determine the cost of their mortgage.

British broadcasters have threatened to embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron by proposing to “empty chair” any political party leader who refuses to take part in live televised debates planned for the general election campaign.

DRUGS have a funny effect on politicians.

A furious row has erupted in Britain after a long-awaited Home Office report on drug abuse prompted claims by the Liberal Democrats that it was "suppressed" by the Conservative party.

Ukip has its first elected MP after a dramatic night which left the two main Westminster parties licking their wounds.

Jubilant Ukip leader Nigel Farage said his “people’s army” was on its way to Westminster after securing first place in historic elections for the European Parliament.

Nigel Farage claimed to have pulled off the “most extraordinary result in British politics for 100 years” as Ukip surged to the top of the European polls in a contest which will leave the leaders of Westminster’s main parties counting the cost.

A would-be Ukip councillor has been suspended over offensive comments Nigel Farage said were “entirely inconsistent” with being a member of the party.

The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Britain’s Liberal Democrats has moved a step closer to the law courts after the peer at the centre of the claims instructed senior counsel to advise him.

A pilot badger cull in the UK is set to be extended by up to three weeks because fewer animals were killed than had been hoped.

WHAT is the point of speaking rights if you have nothing to say? The docile Dáil was all a-buzz at the news that booted-out Blueshirts and unloved-Labourites will actually be heard in the chamber to which they were elected.

A planned cross-border protest ride by Spanish bikers will be blocked from entering Gibraltar, police have said.

David Cameron today pledged to “work really hard” to win back voters who abandoned the Conservatives for the Ukip as Nigel Farage’s party made a series of stunning gains in the council elections.

Three quarters of people in the UK believe rape suspects should be given anonymity until they are convicted, a poll has suggested.

Disgraced former UK Cabinet minister Chris Huhne was ridiculed on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting “Order! Order!”, it was reported today.

The Liberal Democrats have held on to the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire.

British prime minister David Cameron got his way as gay marriage legislation cleared its first hurdle in the House of Commons last night — but saw his party split down the middle.

George Osborne admitted it was taking longer for Britain to recover from the financial crisis than he hoped today amid warnings that the Government would miss its key economic targets.

Nick Clegg has been embarrassingly forced to withdraw comments in which he branded opponents of gay marriage “bigots”.

George Osborne today warned against driving away the wealthy after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called for a temporary tax on the rich.

David Cameron said he is ready to crack down on immigration from struggling countries like Greece if the eurozone goes into meltdown.

Ed Miliband today declared that Labour was “winning back people’s trust” after a night of big gains in mid-term local elections across Britain.

The UK's coalition parties have suffered heavy defeats in local elections in England and Wales.

Chris Huhne resigned as Britain's Energy and Climate Change Secretary today after being charged with perverting the course of justice over allegations that he asked his ex-wife to take a speeding penalty for him.

Tensions over Europe at the heart of the British coalition government were exposed today, as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg failed to attend the House of Commons to hear David Cameron defend his decision to veto last week’s proposed EU treaty.

Alex Salmond has challenged David Cameron on his decision to veto agreement in the European Union.

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg admitted today he was “bitterly disappointed” by the outcome of last week’s European Council when David Cameron wielded Britain’s veto.

Britain’s future relationship with the European Union was under intense scrutiny today in the wake of David Cameron’s dramatic decision to veto treaty changes designed to save the euro.

RUPERT MURDOCH was urged to bow to the will of the British parliament yesterday after it emerged all three main parties are set to back a call for him to abandon his takeover bid for BSkyB.

FORMER British Liberal Democrat treasury minister David Laws was suspended for seven days from the British parliament and ordered to apologise by a committee of inquiry for breaking expenses rules.

BRITAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg vowed yesterday that his Liberal Democrats would take a more assertive role in the year-old coalition government, after the party took a hammering in elections.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have insisted their British government coalition will continue, despite the humiliation handed out to Liberal Democrats in the elections and the referendum on voting reform.

DAVID CAMERON and Nick Clegg insisted their coalition will continue, despite the humiliation handed out to Liberal Democrats in the local elections and the referendum on voting reform.