Coalition MPs will attempt to derail Chancellor George Osborne's "pasty tax" when it is debated in the Commons today. Liberal Democrats and Conserv...

The House of Lords should be relocated to Manchester, according to a former Labour cabinet minister. Lord Adonis argued that moving parliament's up...

Nick Clegg defended plans to cap tax relief on charitable donations today, insisting there had to be "some limit" to an allowance effectively funded b...

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...

British households have come under increased pressure from an unexpected rise in inflation, defying expectations by economic forecasters. The Cons...

The former Labour Minister who introduced the Freedom of Information Act told MPs it should be rewritten to protect secrecy in government decision-mak...

Police are investigating claims a veteran councillor punched a mayor in the face in a row over parking charges. Grandmother-of-two Marjorie Simpson...

Police officers who fail their fitness test should be subject to disciplinary action, according to the chief of the Metropolitan Police. Speaking t...

The UK Independence Party has overtaken the LibDems for the first time ever, according to a new poll. In a YouGov poll conducted for The Sun, the ...

Ed Miliband''s aide Lucy Powell has been chosen to be Labour's parliamentary candidate for the Manchester Central constituency. Powell, the party...

Home Secretary Theresa May allowed "too much drift and delay" in the Government's bid to send radical cleric Abu Qatada back to Jordan, Labour has cla...

More than a third of Londoners think Boris Johnson is a "mayor for the rich", according to a poll published on Monday. However this has apparently ...

Mayor of London Boris Johnson this morning subjected himself to a grilling by the users of Mumsnet. One of the questions was whether David Cameron loo...

Ministers are preparing to back down on a controversial decision over the type of jet that will be flown from the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, ...

After his election defeat, it seems Lembit Opik has not lost his appetite for a political fight. Over the weekend, the former Welsh Lib Dem MP sho...

Almost one in 10 people earning more than £10 million a year is paying less than the 20% basic rate of income tax, the Treasury said, as it launched ...

The London Mayoral campaign has surged on and MPs pack up their bags to return to Westminster as recess draws to a close. Despite politicians being aw...

Local councils across the UK have a combined deficit of £54bn in their pension schemes, it has emerged. The assets of all 101 local authority pens...

At exactly 9:30am on Wednesday the 25th of April, Britain will find out whether it's back in recession. A few people will find out earlier, one of the...

The UK would fall back into recession if Francois Hollande became French president in a few weeks time, according to a leading French economist workin...

Steve Hilton is back - or at least the person tweeting as @SteveHiltonGuru is. This news has sent shockwaves through the political Twitterverse, a...

The pact signed by 25 European countries to combat the eurozone crisis will do "little" and is "politically impossible to enforce", according to a par...

The nature of extradition between America and Britain has been a burning issue for several years. The 2003 UK Extradition Act laid into law the pro...

Arrangements for extradition between the US and the UK should be radically changed to restore public confidence, said a group of MPs. The Home Affa...