Companies can boost UK trade and navigate global shifts by focusing on fast-growing services and digital trade, redoubling efforts in emerging markets, and digitizing their supply chains.

New laws in Britain would make the country the latest among the Western alliance nations to ban China’s global telecom giant Huawei from involvement in any future tech projects, according to a Friday report in the British tabloid The Sun. The new laws on foreign investment in the UK will be implemented to replace the current European Union legislation that will no longer apply to public procurement, if and when Brexit comes into effect.

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the latest Commons debate and votes on what should happen next with Brexit

Facebook should no longer be allowed to govern itself and it’s time for the government to step in as the cop on the beat, according to a new parliamentary report released tonight by the United Kingdom. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee of the UK Parliament has published its final report after more than 18 months of investigation into Facebook and its privacy practices.

A devastating report from a UK parliamentary committee has taken direct aim at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of "contempt." The UK's Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee on Monday released its report on disinformation and "fake news" following an 18-month inquiry, which took in evidence from 73 witnesses. The report called for urgent regulation of Facebook — including an independent UK body to stamp out harmful or illegal content — and skewered Zuckerberg for refusing to give evidence to the committee three times.

“As Jeremy's agent I can confirm that he is on the Labour leadership ballot paper with 35 nominations.Thank you everyone.”

Nigel Farage and his senior adviser were caught up by the glamour of the Tea Party – to the fury of some in their own party. By Freddy Gray and Sebastian Payne. (June 27)

James Wharton, the new minister for the ‘northern powerhouse’, admits the government has yet to decide where the north actually is

The stomach's not for churning.

New charges against a member of the House of Lords claim he violated and tortured children—even inside the highest government offices. Why isn’t he being prosecuted?

Emergency mass surveillance laws rushed through Parliament last year have been ruled unlawful by the High Court

Over 247,000 attempts were made to visit X-rated websites from the UK Parliament’s computer network last year, with the numbers spiking during parliamentary recess in April, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed.

Interim leader defends election system amid claims it has been infiltrated by the hard left and Tories determined to upset process. By Patrick Wintour.

Frontrunner in Labour leadership contest will flesh out his policy plans this week as Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson line up together to warn of Corbyn victory

Up to 3.8 million workers will be affected by what government says is ‘outdated practice’ but unions say it is latest Tory assault on workers’ rights

As I have travelled around the country it has been exciting to see a new generation engage with politics, and older people re-engage. I don’t make personal attacks and do not respond to them. Instead we must debate policy and give people confidence that we can win. But in the coverage of my campaign so far, four misconceptions keep reappearing. I want to address them.

Force facing IPCC inquiry into claims it covered up sex abuse allegations against former prime minister reveals it will lead national oversight

Former prime minister intensifies warning to Labour leadership voters, urging them to reject Corbyn’s policies and ‘understand the danger we are in.’ By Rowena Mason.

How two brothers came to fight very different - but similarly impossible - political battles on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Negative newspaper coverage is tending to have the reverse effect, although Tory-supporting titles may well be very happy about that... By Roy Greenslade.

Jeremy Corbyn, the frontrunner for the Labour leadership, will apologise for Labour's "deception" in the run-up to the Iraq war and for the fallout from the war.

Inside GCHQ, a major phone company of a European ally becomes the target.

David Cameron giving out 26 peerages to political cronies is an embarrassment, and makes the need for House of Lords reform even more crucial than it was before.

The issue of how the one-time Labour mainstream responds to a Corbyn victory is the central question among its MPs. By Patrick Wintour.

British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a “quantitative easing for people” that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying, “It’s about time.” - 2015/09/03

The figures around deaths of benefit claimants following ‘fit-to-work’ assessments released recently were alarming but sadly not surprising. Benefit claimants have been the victim of a compulsively negative rhetoric over the last five years, where the use of terms such as ‘scroungers’ and ‘skivers’ are commonplace.

Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time leftist dissident, has won a stunning victory in the contest for leadership of Britain’s Labour Party. Political pundits say that this means doom for Labour’s electoral prospects; they could be right, although I’m not the only person wondering why commentators who completely failed to predict the Corbyn phenomenon have so much confidence in their analyses of what it means.

DUSTMEN are threatening to boycott collections because families are leaving the handles of their wheelie bins pointing “the wrong way round”.

Cost of visit to pay respects on death of King Abdullah sparks anger as it underlines UK links to kingdom amid human rights concerns

‘Corb snubs the queen,’ ran the headline on the front page of the Sun on 16 September, in response to Jeremy Corbyn’s tight-lipped participation in the singing of the national anthem at a commemoration of the Battle of Britain... By Paul Myerscough.

The government should replace tax credits, Jobseeker’s Allowance, the Universal Credit, and most other major welfare payments with a single Negative Income Tax, according to a new report from the Adam Smith Institute, Free Market Welfare: The case for a Negative Income Tax. This Negative Income Tax (NIT) would act as a minimum income guarantee for all British citizens and be tapered away as people’s earnings rise through work.