Green Party leader confirms he is looking to fight Holborn and St Pancras by-election

PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending

National Education Union welcomes move but tells PM to go further and refund careers advice for young people

Plaid Cymru marks 100 days in Welsh government

Social Housing Action Campaign blasts PM’s decision to break commitment to allocate 100% of Affordable Homes Programme to social rents

Andy Burnham could learn a few lessons from a previous Labour government in the pre-privatisation era on how to tackle water shortages, writes KEITH FLETT

Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory

Burnham urged to stand up to the fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil fields

Peace activists and trade unionists to gather at RAF Fairford to protest against US bombers taking off from Britain to strike Iran

More than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday

The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON

The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS

PM commits to blowing millions on nukes

Only a publicly run, properly funded system that puts dignity before profit can end decades of market failure, says PAUL DONOVAN

PM says football belongs to fans as governing bodies unite against Fifa plans

Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON

Is the Scottish government in favour of drilling or not? Evasiveness and incoherence are the order of the day, argues KENNY MacASKILL

Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism

‘Rent freezes are not a way forward at the moment,’ Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says

by Alistair Findlay

The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP

Mr Burnham's £2 cap on bus fares welcomed by trade unions