Gary Gibbon , Political Editor

10 minutes is a long time in British politics tonight. Both the Chancellor and the Health Secretary have resigned from the Government – in his letter Mr Sunak declared  “we cannot continue like this”. This, just minutes after Mr Johnson was forced into a humiliating apology over appointing the disgraced MP Chris Pincher as Tory…

Downing Street admitted today that Boris Johnson did know of concerns about the sexual behaviour of the MP Chris Pincher before he made him Tory deputy chief whip earlier this year.

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out plans to unilaterally call a second independence referendum in October 2023 but only if she can persuade the Supreme Court that it is legal. Nicola Sturgeon said she accepted that calling a vote without Westminster’s agreement would be challenged in court, so rather than wait, she was…

Boris Johnson came to Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, but whether he remains head of the UK government is once again being questioned by Tories wondering whether the one time winner has become a serial loser.

The government has unveiled its British Bill of Rights – its proposed replacement for the Human Rights Act. 

Just a fifth of trains have been running and half of lines across the country were shut altogether today – in the biggest rail strike for a generation. 

Working people in England will soon be allowed to spend housing benefit on mortgage payments. Boris Johnson said the reform would “turn benefits to bricks” – as part of a new scheme giving housing association tenants the right to buy their homes at a discounted price.  

A defiant Boris Johnson has insisted that  “nothing and no one” will stop him carrying on as British prime minister and “delivering for the British people”. 

Conservative MPs have spent the day taking stock after Boris Johnson lost the backing of two-fifths of his MPs in yesterday’s no confidence vote.

Conservative MPs are casting their ballots on the prime minister’s future, but what will happen if he loses the confidence vote.

“I will lead you to victory again” – that was Boris Johnson’s appeal to backbench Tory MPs this afternoon as he gave the speech of his political life, urging them to back him in tonight’s confidence vote and warning against what he called a “pointless fratricidal debate”.

It sounds attractive but it doesn’t work. It’s disastrous – just a selection of what members of the cabinet said about a windfall tax in the last few weeks. But now Rishi Sunak is hitting the oil and gas giants with a levy, prompting consternation among some Conservatives, but jubilation from anti-poverty campaigners. The money…

There was excessive drinking and a minor altercation. Someone was sick. A swing was broken. Cleaners were disrespected. Messages were sent later congratulating each other they’d got away with it. 

The highly anticipated Sue Gray report into Downing Street lockdown parties could be published tomorrow.

The latest photos to emerge from Number 10 show the prime minister drinking with colleagues around a table littered with booze.