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Hackney Council planning to reduce opening hours for its eight libraries due to ‘severe’ budget cuts

Party will take lead in first round of talks to form coalition government after securing most votes

MP who left Labour in July to form leftwing grouping with Jeremy Corbyn, says party is not just one of protest

With 99 per cent of votes counted, the Dutch election has ended in a dead heat between D66 and Geert Wilders’ PVV. Leiden University professor Bernard Steunenberg says the result signals a return to the political centre and indicates that voters are seeking practical solutions, both at home and across…

Some MPs have pushed for the conduct of members of the royal family to be debated in the Commons.

Despite pledges to run a squeaky clean administration the prime minister and some in his cabinet have been caught out

The Liberals have held hours-long talks to thrash out their policies on energy and climate change, as they inch towards a new position on the issue.

Graham Moore, a losing candidate in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election in May, has launched a legal challenge against the result.

Rules on quotas to ensure fair representation of women changed on legal advice in light of supreme court ruling