If a week is a long time in politics, how long is 11 years of a man's life if those 11 years are spent behind the wire fences and security towers of Guantánamo Bay? Eleven years, it should be added, without a trial, without seeing your family, and without any knowledge of when - or even if - you are ever going to leave that place.

George Osborne's planned banking reforms "fall well short of what is required", the parliamentary commission on banking standards has warned. In a ...

The new Archbishop of Canterbury will continue to apply the expertise he has acquired from his two careers to the overhaul of banking standards, it wa...

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond was "highly selective" in his evidence to MPs, a powerful Parliamentary committee concluded on Saturday. The Treas...

The box-office event at Westminster takes place on Wednesday, when Barclays boss Bob Diamond appears before MPs on the Treasury Committee to answer a ...

Barclays boss Bob Diamond's appearance before the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday promises to be a more humbling affair than his last, when he ...

A series of government U-turns on proposals set out in this year's Budget has made it harder for future chancellors to stick to their plans, the chair...

The chair of the influential Commons Treasury committee Andrew Tyrie has described the prospects for the British economy as "not good", because it is ...

We need a governor with real vision. Not just a policy wonk but a candidate who has a clear plan on what the UK needs to do in developing monetary and financial sector policy.

Estimates used by George Osborne to justify the axing of the 50p top tax rate are "highly uncertain", an influential group of MPs warned today. The...

Chancellor George Osborne is understood to be considering a spending review in the autumn of next year, to set out the government's programme of cuts ...

Tories from the radical "Free Enterprise Group" wing of the party have been outlining what they would like to see ministers do to accelerate the reduc...

The new system of financial regulation must help consumers by promoting competition and better communication so it does not repeat the "shortcomings" ...

Proper financial regulation is a delicate balancing act. The long-term health and stability of our economy requires great care to safeguard both the independence of the Bank and the interests of the public.

The UK's banks are having their ability to lend squeezed by regulation and the eurozone crisis, which is putting the UK's economic recovery at risk, a...

If Thatcherites want a smaller state, then they surely want a smaller deficit, and the best way to get that could be (as our Thatcherite-inspired Chancellor argues) for taxes to remain uncut.

A senior Conservative MP has attacked the government's plans for growth as inconsistent and incoherent on the eve of the Conservative Party conference...