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Boris Johnson warned it's better to ask for Brexit extension than let Jeremy Corbyn into Downing St 

The senior minister told the Daily Mail the Prime Minister would fight in court to try to find a way around the law forcing him to extend the October 31 Brexit deadline.




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JACK DOYLE analyses the lie of the land as the election looms 

JACK DOYLE: Rain's predicted for Thursday, and there's the chance of snow in Scotland. This could mean older, less mobile, Tory voters stay at home.




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Labour is using every trick to get its support out in this knife edge election, writes JACK DOYLE

JACK DOYLE: In the red corner stands Jeremy Corbyn, a friend to Britain's enemies, whose hard-Left prospectus would lay waste to Britain's economy.




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How the Tories triggered an election tsunami: JACK DOYLE goes inside the Boris Johnson campaign

Throughout the campaign, Tory staff out on the road with Mr Johnson were always more optimistic than those based in London, because they saw at first hand the reception he got from the public.




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Grayson Perry says Ed Miliband should NOT lead Labour's probe into disastrous election result 

The Turner winning ceramicist Grayson Perry delivered an acute and sharp-eyed diagnosis of Labour's failings after he was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio Four's Today programme.




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Where to find the best mortgage deals as home loans are hit by Trump's election win

The cost to banks of funding mortgages has leapt since Mr Trump's surprise win, and experts expect these rises to be passed on to homeowners.




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Senators: 'No doubt' Putin ordered 'extensive' operation to help Trump

'There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections,' the committee's top Republican and Democrat after a closed hearing on the issue.




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Trump says a government spy infiltrated his 2016 election campaign

An FBI informant was acting as 'secret spy' in the Trump election campaign, but he was not planted. A retired professor working for the Government met with three Trump aides in 2016.




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Justice Department orders internal probe of 'political motivation' behind spying on Trump campaign

Following Trump's demand that the DOJ investigate his allegation that the Obama administration's FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his 2016 campaign, the agency said it will formally probe those claims.




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GOP pays half a million dollars for law firm representing Hope Hicks

The Republican Party has paid half a million dollars to the law firm representing Hope Hicks, the former Trump aide who admitted she sometimes lied to help her then-boss Donald Trump.




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Kirstjen Nielsen was unaware Russia's election meddling was for Trump

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.




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Lawyers to Mueller on Trump interview: No questions on post-election

President Donald Trump's legal team is trying to cut a deal on the president's potential interview with Mueller's team, pushing to keep any of Trump's actions after he won the presidency off the table.




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Roger Stone 'sought info on Hillary from Assange before election'

Longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone (left), allegedly inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (top right) before the 2016 election.




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Trump claims FBI told Obama about Russian meddling before election

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.




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Mueller's Russia investigation bill hits $17 million

According to the U.S Department of Justice, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe racked up nearly $10 million in expenditure from October to March, the latest six-month accounting period.




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Trump again derides Mueller's investigation as a 'hoax'

Trump said hopped on a report that put the tab for the investigation that he called the 'Russian hoax' at $17 million.




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Inside the mysterious Wikistrat firm that Mueller is investigating

Wikistrat, a company that pitches itself as a crowdsourced geopolitical research firm, may actually be involved in intelligence-gathering on behalf of foreign governments, it has been reported.




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Jeff Sessions defends firing Comey ahead of Clinton email report

Jeff Sessions was speaking ahead of the inspector general's report on the Clinton email investigation, which is expected to blame 'insubordinate' James Comey.




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Trump: Decision to revoke Manafort's bail is 'very unfair'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.




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Texas tax fraud convict jailed for five years for illegally voting in 2016 election denied retrial

Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old tax fraud convict and mother-of-two, voted in the 2016 election while on supervised release - unaware that she was ineligible under a Texas law.




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Trump mocks 'Crooked Hillary' for losing election amid dispute over immigration

Donald Trump swatted back at his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after she said in a speech that he was wrong about Germany's crime rate.




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Trump says he'll talk to Putin about election meddling

The U.S. president says he also plans to talk to Putin about the civil war in Syria and Russia's incursion into Crimea when they meet on July 16 Helsinki, Finland.




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Trump 'feels' Russia interfered following election meddling report

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'




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Moscow pop star Emin Agalarov denies he was agent of Russian collusion

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov admits he was the force behind the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. but he denies he was trying to influence the election for Donald Trump.




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Trump says he'll bring up election meddling with Putin

President Donald Trump said he would once again raise the sensitive issue of election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin – then predicted his counterpart 'may deny it.'




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Spicer says DHS told Trump campaign Russia couldn't rig the election

In his upcoming book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President, detailing his time White House, Sean Spicer says DHS officials made the comments when Clinton was expected to win.




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Roger Stone says he's the 'U.S. person' mentioned in Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian agents

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.




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Russian gun activist 'infiltrated US political organizations'

Maria Butina, 29, was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with acting as a foreign agent on orders from the Kremlin - a direct allegation of election interference.




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Putin offers to interrogate his spies accused of election meddling

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.




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Trump claims he confronted Putin on meddling in the 2016 election

President Donald Trump is taking a much tougher line on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new television interview than he did just days ago in Helsinki at Putin's side.




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Jane Fonda slams Trump for denying Putin played a part in election

US President Trump has faced criticism after he refused to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over meddling in the US election at their Helsinki summit earlier this week.




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Trump told about Putin's election meddling weeks before inauguration

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.




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Hillary Clinton had dinner with Harvey Weinstein after election loss

Photos of Hillary Clinton having dinner with longtime pal Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss have emerged.




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Trump's top evangelical ally Falwell Jr attacks Sessions as a 'phony'

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.




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Brennan: Trump revoked security clearance to hide Russia collusion

Answering charges that he is only targeting a list of his political opponents, Trump claimed he 'would put a Republican on, too, if I thought they were incompetent or crazy.'




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Lawyer says Cohen has information that may interest Robert Mueller

Lanny Davis, lawyer for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, said during an interview on CNN Tuesday that his client may have information related to Russian meddling.




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Trump tweets 'no collusion' after Cohen and Manafort are brought down

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.




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Bolton warns Russia over election meddling before heading to Kiev

John Bolton met with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, when the pair discussed election meddling, Syria, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons.




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Mueller snubs Trump attorneys' letter setting out interview conditions

Mueller has not responded to a weeks-old letter from Trump's legal team, suggesting the president's testimony isn't needed or investigators are tracking down new leads.




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George Papadopoulos says his testimony could help prove collusion between Trump campaign and Russia

George Papadopoulos. who tired to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, said his testimony could help prove collusion.




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Hillary Clinton unloads on Trump and trolls his inauguration

Clinton launched a salvo at Donald Trump at an event in Washington D.C. where she accused him of bigotry, highlighting the Charlottesville violence, and mocked his notorious inauguration crowd.




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Paul Manafort violated plea deal and lied to prosecutors says Mueller

President Donald Trump accused the special counsel of ruining lives a day after Paul Manafort was charged with breaking his plea agreement for similar behavior.




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PIERS MORGAN: Mueller report shows collusion was disgraceful hoax

So it was all fake news…The entire two-year Russia collusion frenzy was based on an absolute falsehood that Donald Trump and his team had colluded with Russians to fix the 2016 election.




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Ecuador knew Wikileaks' Assange was interfering in 2016 US election

Former Ecuadorian President Rafeal Correa has said he was aware WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering with the 2016 US Presidential election from the embassy in London.




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Cristiano Ronaldo, Virgil van Dijk and Lionel Messi named on Ballon d'Or 30-man shortlist

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil Van Dijk have all been shortlisted for this year's Ballon d'Or, after the 30-man shortlist for the prestigious award was announced.




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Klopp believes Liverpool are once again among Europe's elite after seven Ballon D'Or nominations

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool's septet of Ballon d'Or nominees is the surest indication his club have re-established themselves as a leading European force.




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RICHARD KAY: Prince Charles gave millions to William and Harry

RICHARD KAY: Prince Charles is 'drained' from the amount he spends on his sons. Bills he has splashed out on include the Sussex's home Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.




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Sir Martin Sorrell is faced with shelling out £100million to his second wife

RICHARD KAY: Fifteen years ago, Sir Martin Sorrell paid a then record divorce settlement of more than £29 million to his first wife, Sandra Finestone, after 33 years of marriage.




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RICHARD KAY looks at how Harry's life-long passion for the armed forces has come to a sudden end 

RICHARD KAY: Just over a year ago Prince Harry was at a Royal Marines base in the Dartmoor National Park presenting recruits with their coveted green berets (pictured, with Diana in 1986).




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As Sol Kerzner dies aged 84, RICHARD KAY looks back at his riotously louche life

To the very end, when he was 84 years old, battling cancer and in possession of a fortune worth upwards of £500million, South African hotel boss, Sol Kerzner was still making deals.