David Cameron faced stern reactions from business leaders as well as calls for stronger action from his political rivals in the wake of his executive ...

Gun laws will not be reviewed in the wake of a man with a gun licence shooting himself and three female relatives in Peterlee, County Durham, the gove...

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle at No 10 were so determined to distance her from a communist French politician during a lunch meeting that they place...

Margaret Thatcher's bitter battles with the Tory "wets" are laid bare in official papers made public for the first time. Files released by the Nati...

Prime minister Margaret Thatcher's secret attempts to end the IRA hunger strikes are revealed in official documents made public for the first time. ...

Margaret Thatcher was secretly urged to abandon Liverpool to a fate of "managed decline" in the wake of the Toxteth riots, new papers reveal. Senio...

Margaret Thatcher secretly discussed issuing firearms to the police amid fears riots could disrupt the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana S...

Two-thirds of the cabinet in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government opposed her decision to buy the Trident nuclear deterrent, according to offic...

Margaret Thatcher was so concerned about how expensive refurbishment at Number 10 might be used against her that she insisted on using her own househo...

Margaret Thatcher's aides found themselves dealing with an "odd complaint" ahead of a meeting with the French president in 1979 - that his chair shoul...

Margaret Thatcher was accused of seeking to "dismantle" the Royal Navy leaving Britain's defences dangerously exposed, less than a year before the inv...

Freedom of information laws should be amended so Cabinet ministers can have "real discussions" without worrying that arguments will be made public, th...

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are to confront significant tensions within the coalition over Europe as they meet face-to-face across the...

David Cameron has welcomed a widow to Downing Street on live television and hailed her as the "best of British" for fostering 300 vulnerable children....

David Cameron has been forced to reveal the details of the £64,000 revamp of his family's Downing Street flat. When the prime minister moved his f...

The Government should set up a register of Parliamentary lobbyists following the latest claims about firms' influences on ministers, MPs have been tol...

The Military Wives choir could be set to go from Number 10 to Number 1 as they impressed crowds with their Christmas carol singing. Performing out...

A leading lobbying company has been secretly taped claiming to be able to directly influence David Cameron and other senior government figures. Exe...

Britain will use future negotiations in Europe to pursue the Government's objective of limiting the application of the Working Time Directive in the U...

The million young people out of work isn't the only worrying statistic in Wednesday morning's joblessness figures. Female unemployment has risen by 43...

With the loss of their legal aid-funded employment specialists, the great majority of Citizens Advice Bureaux will no longer have the expertise and capacity to conduct such negotiation with employers, and to sift out misguided or evidentially weak claims.