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Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting. Mr Brown took questions from an invited audience at the Albert Hall ahead of the meeting. As part of the visit,...
The children's commissioner has called on the government and all political parties to commit to continued investment in children's services to safeguard their rights. Sir Al Aynsley-Green and his colleagues in Scotland, Wales...
Gordon Brown has brushed aside gloomy economic news, insisting he remained an "optimist" over the future of the country's finances. Gordon Brown has brushed aside gloomy economic news, insisting he remained an "optimist" over...
Wikipedia Which 2005 “notional” result should we believe? After JackW’s earlier thread I thought I’d have a further look at Morley & Outwood - the seat with new boundaries that the Schools Secretary, the public-school educated...
Will she be forced to resign? Can she survive? Credit: Getty Images The electorate may be increasingly used to its representatives facing criminal charges but it's still acutely embarrassing for Harriet Harman, a QC and a...
A handful of Labour MPs turned up on the day after the Queen's speech. And most of them could scarcely be bothered to stand up and ask a question. Nobody believes in this thing. It's not worth the parchment it's written on....
By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor The Government is heading for borrowing more of than £200bn this year, on the basis of the latest figures on the Treasury's finances, which have been branded "dismal" by economists. Ministers...
The show was The Year In Question, hosted by Hunter Davies, who grilled teams from rival newspapers on the events of a given year, of which we were notified in advance to allow us to do some homework. The paper's editor, Eve...
Can't they put Ed Balls into law? Make him the subject of a Guarantee? Can't he be a right that every parent has? If for the first time Balls was put on a statutory basis millions of people would be certain of access to him.
Sam Lister, Health Editor, and Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor The row over Gordon Brown’s care plans for the elderly increased yesterday, forcing him to defend the policy against accusations that it risked causing...
