The Queen's Speech setting out the government's legislative agenda for the next parliamentary session will be held on Wednesday May 9, it has been rev...

Ministers have begun a push to publicise the second year of the National Citizen Service (NCS), David Cameron's personal crusade to introduce a volunt...

The Liberal Democrats will today open the door to working with the Scottish National Party to deliver more powers to Holyrood if Scotland votes no to ...

A Government appeal will be heard on Monday against a ruling which says it must publish a risk assessment of its controversial NHS reforms. In Nove...

Vladimir Putin is a "ruthless" dictator whose days are numbered, David Miliband said today as Russians go to the polls. The former foreign secretar...

David Cameron faces fresh pressure from church leaders over the Government's plans for gay marriage. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholi...

Labour MP Tom Watson has written to David Cameron, saying he fears a "culture of dishonesty developing in Downing Street" in the wake of the revelatio...

The possibility of a coalition re-think on child benefit for households with a higher-rate taxpayer will arguably be one of the biggest backtrack by m...

The government has been defeated three times in the House of Lords on Ken Clarke's legal aid changes, amid concerns that the reforms would deny people...

Ed Miliband could be forgiven for taking BBC 5 Live off the presets of his radio, after its phone-in audience gave the Labour leader a thoroughly unpl...

Prime minister's questions got off to a sombre start this lunchtime. following the the grim news coming from Afghanistan of the apparent deaths of six...

Britain is made up of two countries, with lengthening dole queues alongside "bonus-drunk" bankers still carrying on business as usual despite the stat...

Hundreds of protesters braved heavy rain on Wednesday lunchtime to take their campaign for fuel duty cuts to Westminster. Pensioners, cabbies, van ...

Deputy London Mayor Kit Malthouse pulled out of a planned hustings for deputy mayoral candidates on Wednesday afternoon. Malthouse faced call to re...