The ten things you need to know on Friday 17 May 2013... 1) A PRE-ELECTION DIVORCE? With just two years to go till the general election, and the...

Stephanie Bottrill seems to have concluded, in the face of all the information available to her, that - in undeniable fact - nobody in Government does care. Nobody was prepared to lift a finger to help her in her no-win, zero-options situation.

It is baffling how immigration has changed the game in British politics these days. There are more fundamentally important issues facing British society, most notably a stalled economy that has the country on the edge of a triple-dip recession. Yet, the immigration threat, and the supposed ills it has unleashed on Britain, has gripped the public imagination.

A Cabinet Minister has claimed Nick Clegg is only opposing childcare reforms to head off a campaign to oust him as Liberal Democrat leader. In an e...

Labour must draw up plans for a possible coalition with the Liberal Democrats if it fails to win the next general election outright, a senior peer sai...

One of the coalition's key reforms has been thrown into doubt after Nick Clegg signalled he did not support it. The government wants to allow child...

The former chair of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Adair Turner, has called on the government to be "more cautious" about austerity and expre...

Equalities minister Jo Swinson has praised hospital staff after she needed treatment following an allergic reaction to a biscuit,. The Liberal Demo...

Israeli politics is at a historic turning point. Recent elections have brought about changes that breathe fresh, unmistakable mood of optimism into a tired and troubled coalition.

Britain's finances remain under intense pressure after figures today showed annual net borrowing managed only a slight dip to £120.6 billion in the f...

The cash-strapped Coalition announced on the 10th April they would be pumping £6.5million into projects aimed at helping separated parents "put their differences aside for the sake of their children". The announcement has put mediation in the spotlight as divorcees seek to minimise the impact of their split on their children.

The current administration are wide-open to charges of callousness, misrepresenting salient facts about poverty and an abject failure, indeed refusal, to listen to any source - however well-informed - that doesn't unswervingly endorse their chosen path

Life size cut outs of David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson advertised on Amazon are attracting the ire of voters in the reviews section of the ...

Fraud is always a problem. Lying and cheating is wrong and society should certainly discourage it. But benefit fraud - people lying and cheating in order to increase the size of their benefits - is not a big problem. There are many problems which are much bigger, in particular fraud by government.

Nick Clegg has mocked the Conservative Party, saying his coalition partners are "like a broken shopping trolley" that keeps lurching to the right. ...

Senior Conservatives have denied claims David Cameron’s support for gay marriage cost them first or second place in the Eastleigh by-election. Uk...

As post-by-election spin goes, saying everything is ok because at least your coalition partners won, is pretty bold. The deputy chairman of the Con...

Is it actually even possible to beat the Lib Dems in a by-election? The incumbent resigned and faces jail, the party's national poll rating is in the ...

The cost and shortage of childcare is harming our economy and our society. Parents who were once an active part of the workforce are giving up their jobs, childcare costs are overtaking mortgage payments, and women are being held back from senior positions in all industries.

A damning picture of communities stricken by poverty, crime and unrest, tenants savagely competing "Lord of the Flies" style for housing, has been dra...