During David Cameron's trip to America, we saw the bromance flourish between him and Obama. They appeared to "seal the deal" by jetting off together t...
The government will legalise gay marriage, in spite of vocal opposition from Christian movements, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone has said as s...
Politicians across Westminster have embraced the digital age. They have been taking up iPhones, Blackberries and iPads in their droves. Even the Pr...
Barely one in ten young people think the coalition is going fast enough in tackling the deficit. This revelation came at the launch of a "Youth Bu...
Ken Livingstone sensationally compared The Evening Standard's coverage of his pledge to cut tube fares to a slur that Europe's Jews spread disease. ...
Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has been accused of “comic ineptitude" and "muddled economics” by a senior Conservative councilor. Thi...
A Lib Dem councillor has written to the Press Complaints Commission over news reports that he'd suggested students should pay council tax. Gerald ...
Can I say what a privilege it is to speak to the first EEF Annual Conference. Too often, the story that is told of British manufacturing is of a s...
Ed Miliband has called for greater patriotism about British industry in order to secure an economy recovery. He attacked the government for being ...
The BBC has been slammed by MPs over how it has handled its cuts programme. The Commons public accounts committee warned that the broadcaster riske...
Gordon Brown has been attacked by a former special adviser for his stressful working practises. The revelations by John Woodcock, a former special...
One of the country’s top civil servants said the Whitehall bureaucracy sometimes has to save politicians from themselves. Treasury Permanent Secr...
The coalition has come under attack from one of its own MPs for the “yawning gap” that exists between the rich and poor. Conservative MP Damian...
Another week, and another set of senior politicians taking to the internet for an online Q&A. On Wednesday afternoon Tory party chairman Baroness War...
Prime Minister David Cameron was made to explain himself in the Commons on Wednesday after PMQs, because of a complaint from a Labour MP. Bolton ...
One of the country’s most senior academics has admitted unpaid internships are here to stay. Speaking at the launch of a report examining studen...
Just over a quarter of people in England support Scottish Independence, a new survey has found. In what would be welcome news for Scottish nationa...
Europe Minister David Lidington has revealed the “unprecedented [and] severe reservations” held by the UK during last year’s talks to solve the ...
MPs have attacked the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), amid accusations that it's damaging both the British fishing industry and the stocks of fish...
Pilots have warned of a "danger to public safety" if longer flight times were introduced, in evidence to MPs on the Transport Committee on Tuesday mor...
Families who hire cleaners, babysitters and cooks could benefit from a new tax break proposal aimed at getting women back to work. The move, inspir...
All UK charities have suddenly found themselves facing the same dilemma: do they take up the offer of free advertising space in the final edition of the News of the World, or do they reject association with the toxic brand? Free coverage in what was Britain's highest selling Sunday newspaper? At a time when many charities are facing funding cuts and tough fundraising conditions? Surely that is not such a difficult decision to make?
Sitting opposite Labour members has been an instructive experience over the last fourteen months. For them debt - and the accumulation of it - is an alien concept. To every cut they shout "shame"; to every saving they accuse us of attacking the vulnerable and dispossessed. But to the central question of the national finances, they offer little comment - other than a repetition of whatever Ed Balls is offering from his wonderland that day.
With Twitter and the blogosphere (in the UK) full of murmers about the pros and cons of Americans in London marking both the 4th July and Ronald Reagan's centenary by placing a statue of him outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, I thought I'd put on record (again) my admiration of him as a great speaker.
I don't remember the same fascination back in January, when George Osborne gave a nearly identical interview to the BBC defending the unexpected shrinking of the economy, giving exactly the same answer several times in three minutes.
