The ringleader of the Tory plot to oust Theresa May has been roundly condemned by senior party figures as the Prime Minister promised to provide "calm leadership".

A teacher told pupils to shun a 13-year-old boy due to his father being a Tory MP, the Commons has heard.

The jobs minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor is expected to meet officials in Brussels later to discuss the impact of Brexit.

All cars and light vans in Europe will have to be fitted with automatic emergency calling devices from April 2018 under new rules approved by European Union lawmakers, aimed at cutting road deaths by 10% a year.

Britain's chancellor George Osborne will today endorse sweeping European supervisory powers over banks and financial institutions in response to the economic crisis.