The coalition begins its sternest test yet as MPs begin discussing House of Lords reform with rebels confident of inflicting the government's first ma...

Government departments cut their spending by £6.7 billion more than was planned over the last year, a Treasury report revealed. The Government spe...

After the celebrations of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee and now looking forward to the London Olympics the coalition is heading into more turbulent political waters due to the on-going Eurozone crisis.

Churches and other religious premises should be allowed to host gay weddings, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said. The Lib Dem leader stresse...

Nick Clegg has said he has been left "lobotomised" by his time in government due to frenetic pace of activity in Whitehall. According to The Times,...

I'll bet the Prime Minister would give his butler's left leg right about now for a moratorium on the expression "U-turn". Well actually given the choice, he'd probably rather expunge the term "omnishambles" from our shared lexicon but one fire-fight at a time.

Parliament is braced for a lengthy pitched battle over reform of the House of Lords after Labour confirmed it will combine with Conservative rebels to...

Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Danny Alexander has warned his Conservative coalition partners they have a "responsibility" to support House of Lord...

Prime Minister David Cameron has sparked heated debated over the country's welfare system as he moves to unveil plans to slash housing benefits availa...

The senior Labour peer Lord Lipsey, an economist and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on statistics, has calculated the proposals would cost...

Gay marriage will be pushed through however heated the debate becomes, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg warned critics of the reform. The Church of...

David Cameron has defied repeated calls from Nick Clegg to launch a sleaze probe into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's handling of the BSkyB bid, it ha...

Nick Clegg's two years in office have convinced him that Britain's establishment is "broken" and "past its sell by date". Clegg, who has faced crit...

Cabinet minister Vince Cable has become the second Lib Dem to raise the prospect of the break-up of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition before...

If the government's new maternity leave plans go ahead it means new mums will be legally entitled to just four and a half months off with their baby, and any further leave will be under negotiation with their employer, and potentially unpaid.

Tim Farron is red-faced when he arrives in his sweltering office at Westminster on Tuesday afternoon; he's just back from the gym. Most people at...

A Conservative cabinet minister has declared his opposition to same-sex marriage in the most significant challenge yet to reform plans backed by the p...