The Latest Breaking News from Harriet Harman

The senior Labour parliamentarian has thrown her hat in the ring to replace party colleague Chris Bryant as chair of the Commons Standards Committee.

George Osborne used to tell the world’s most expensive jokes. At the 2015 Budget, the then-chancellor said £1 million would be spent to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, primarily to land a gag about a Labour-SNP alliance. Further public money was allocated to reducing tolls on…

Four Conservatives were hit by ‘real harassment’ from party colleagues, says committee chair

Privileges committee chair says Tory colleagues stood up to ‘real harassment’ during inquiry into ex-PM’s statements

Legislation that led to Carla Foster being jailed after procuring pills for a termination said to be ‘antiquated’

Campaigners have claimed it was ‘never in the public interest’ to prosecute Carla Foster.

Of course Keir Starmer is cautious in the runup to an election – Labour can’t change Britain from the opposition benches, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Allies of Boris Johnson were criticised by the Privileges Committee over their response to the Partygate report

Allies of Boris Johnson were criticised by the Privileges Committee and accused of trying to undermine the panel’s work into the former PM

MPs take no further action as Partygate parliamentary proceedings conclude

A three-hour long debate on the Privileges Committee's report into MPs who tried to undermine an inquiry into Boris Johnson's Partygate lies saw the chair of the committee become tearful at one point