The coalition has come under attack from one of its own MPs for the “yawning gap” that exists between the rich and poor. Conservative MP Damian...

One of the country’s top civil servants said the Whitehall bureaucracy sometimes has to save politicians from themselves. Treasury Permanent Secr...

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has admitted she thinks the Labour Party will soon have a female leader. In an interview with The House magazi...

Gordon Brown has been attacked by a former special adviser for his stressful working practises. The revelations by John Woodcock, a former special...

The BBC has been slammed by MPs over how it has handled its cuts programme. The Commons public accounts committee warned that the broadcaster riske...

Ed Miliband has called for greater patriotism about British industry in order to secure an economy recovery. He attacked the government for being ...

Can I say what a privilege it is to speak to the first EEF Annual Conference. Too often, the story that is told of British manufacturing is of a s...

The government needs to take swift and decisive action to protect members of the public from falling prey to sharp practices by payday loan companies,...

A Lib Dem councillor has written to the Press Complaints Commission over news reports that he'd suggested students should pay council tax. Gerald ...

Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has been accused of “comic ineptitude" and "muddled economics” by a senior Conservative councilor. Thi...

Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned of the “deeply alarming” implications of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Speaking to the Foreign Af...

London Mayor Boris Johnson has unveiled his plans for London transport in “the biggest transformation since the Victorian age”. Speaking to Co...

Baroness Warsi has said the Tories are ready to fight for Huhne's Eastleigh seat, if the former energy secretary is forced to resign after his trial f...

Nothing will stop Scotland from becoming an independent nation, a Tory peer has warned, questioning whether fighting to keep the union together is wor...

David Cameron is jetting off to the United States to start bilateral talks with President Obama on Tuesday, but the meeting comes at a difficult momen...

Britain's railways are on course to miss their targets for improvement, the head of Network Rail admitted to MPs on Tuesday morning. David Higgins...

Ken Livingstone sensationally compared The Evening Standard's coverage of his pledge to cut tube fares to a slur that Europe's Jews spread disease. ...

Barely one in ten young people think the coalition is going fast enough in tackling the deficit. This revelation came at the launch of a "Youth Bu...

Government plans to regulate lobbyists have been attacked as "fundamentally flawed" by leading players in the industry. This attack came as represe...

Politicians across Westminster have embraced the digital age. They have been taking up iPhones, Blackberries and iPads in their droves. Even the Pr...

During David Cameron's trip to America, we saw the bromance flourish between him and Obama. They appeared to "seal the deal" by jetting off together t...

The government will legalise gay marriage, in spite of vocal opposition from Christian movements, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone has said as s...

MORE than 17,000 health workers in the world’s poorest countries will be trained to provide emergency care for millions of mothers and babies by exp...

David Cameron left Washington this morning after a two-day visit in which he has enjoyed the warmest possible embrace from America's political and soc...

When Leanne Wood announced she was standing in the Plaid Cymru leadership race, she was regarded by many as the rank outsider, given her more junior p...