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.

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.

I have covered the past five British general elections, writes QUENTON LETTS, but Trump and Clinton have shown me that American elections make a British visitor feel very alien.

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.

Laura Garza, a Mexican national living in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of voter impersonation and ineligible voting, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

British music promoter Rob Goldstone helped set up a Trump Tower meeting with Russians under the expectation they had 'smoking gun' material on Hillary, he told lawmakers.

'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.

Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas to a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

Rudy Giuliani said President Trump's disclosure that he 'reimbursed' Michael Cohen for his payment to Stormy Daniels 'vindicates' that Robert Mueller must end his Russia probe.

Trump allowed in a tweet that the claim may not be accurate. If true, though, he said, it would be the biggest political scandal in modern American history.

Senate Democrats claim to have evidence Russians funneled money through the National Rifle Association to help elect Trump, using Maria Butina (left), a Russian gun rights activist.

The president poured gasoline on an already roaring political bonfire, suggesting he believes the FBI planted 'at least one' spy in his campaign in order to derail his White Houe aspirations.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks the first six months of Donald Trump's administration were a 's*** show,' and doesn't want him to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller.

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.

Former Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper met with two Trump advisers suspected of dealing with the Russians in 2016, prompting claims he was acting as an FBI agent.

President Trump is demanding his Justice Department examine whether his 2016 presidential campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled' by the FBI, he announced on Sunday.

Roger Stone, the self-described Republican ‘political dirty trickster’ and supporter of President Donald Trump, says he is ‘prepared’ in case he is indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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.

The planned sit-down is to discuss a response to congressional requests. Trump is expected to bring up his demand, however, that DOJ examine whether his campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled'.

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.

Three members of the House Freedom Caucus will introduce a 12-page resolution on Tuesday calling for a new probe to run in parallel with one led by Robert Mueller.

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.

There was at least one additional 'informant' who tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it was revealed by a former aide Michael Caputo, who has long Russia ties.

Top intelligence agency officials will brief Republican lawmakers on Thursday on a confidential FBI source who acted as an informant on the Trump presidential campaign.

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.

The tweets were the US President's latest attempt to use reports that an FBI informant met with three of his campaign advisers to accuse the bureau of pursuing political ends.

'SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!' the president tweeted on Wednesday, gloating that it could be a comeuuppance for a partisan FBI that is investigating him.

President Donald Trump volleyed another attack at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying he was 'not happy' about what he termed 'spying' on his presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump lauded his deputy attorney general on Wednesday for combating a violent gang of criminal immigrants.

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on the 2016 election

An impromptu conversation at a cocktail party could be behind the assertion from former Trump aide Michael Caputo that there was another informant sniffing around the campaign.

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.

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.

Trump claims Democrats are splitting hairs in the semantics of determining whether the FBI used a 'spy' or an 'informant' to keep tabs on his presidential campaign.

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'.

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.

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.

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

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.

Donald Trump renewed his 'spygate' attacks by parroting claims on Fox that shamed agents Strzok and Page were hiring 'spies' to work on his campaign as early as December 2015.

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

An FBI lawyer exchanged messages after the election with another colleague and proclaimed: 'Vive la resistance.'

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.

Manafort was booked into Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia at 8.22pm on Friday, after a federal judge revoked his bond ahead of a trial scheduled for September.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.

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.

In his latest Twitter rant Trump slammed Peter Strzok, who worked briefly on the Russia investigation but was removed from the probe when a report revealed he had sent anti-Trump text messages.