2XA90Y3 Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses outside Islington Town Hall, north London, after handing in his nomination papers for the General Election on July 4. Picture date: Wednesday ...

MP for Wokingham Clive Jones has called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to meet Royal Berkshire Hospital patients and staff over delays to ...

There are some Seanad “lifers” also running, senators who run exclusively for the Upper House. They include former cathaoirleach Mark Daly, who is expected to be comfortably returned, as are ...

There was a time when politicians seemed human, but most today come across as overly-rehearsed and permanently defensive spreadsheet managers with every answer calculated, writes Brian Reade ...

Under the existing first-past-the-post system, voters select their preferred candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins.

Heathrow's third runway can be built and operating in a decade's time, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. Reeves told the BBC she wanted to see "spades in the ground" in the current Parliament and ...

Sir Keir Starmer, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown joined John's widow Lady Pauline, 82, and their sons Johnathan and David to share treasured memories of a man who helped shape modern Labour.

The great and the good of the Labour Party joined the Prescott family at his funeral at Hull Minster in the city where he was an MP for 40 years.

Independent Senators Ronan Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins have been re-elected to the National Union of Ireland (NUI) Seanad constituency. Their election follows that of poll topper Michael McDowell, ...

Two councillors have clashed over Derby’s bins with one post on a cabinet member’s Facebook page labelled “unprofessional”. Ndukwe Onuoha (Labour) and Matthew Eyre (Conservative) have been in a fiery ...

Norway's government coalition collapsed on Thursday following a long dispute over the implementation of EU energy market ...