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By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent MPs defied the threat of a public backlash on Thursday by throwing out proposals to bring greater transparency and more rigorous audit to their system of expenses. The House of Commons...
Gordon Brown on Thursday dismissed the notion that speculators were behind record oil prices, even as the Treasury select committee said it would hold the country’s first parliamentary hearing into the issue. Attending a...
Gordon Brown yesterday gave his strongest signal yet he is going to abandon the 2p-a-litre increase in fuel duty within weeks, as oil prices hit yet another record high. It is likely he will announce before the Glasgow East...
Only al-Qaeda and Iran pose bigger danger Philip Webster, Political Editor Britain’s security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown’s first...
Minister's shock warning on rise of anti-Islamic prejudice By Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many...
Alistair Darling dismissed speculation last night that Britain was poised for its first recession since the early 1990s as the growing threat to western economies was highlighted by a fresh surge in oil prices to within...
MINISTER Ruth Kelly got a wake-up call yesterday — when protesters blasted aircraft noise through her letterbox. Activists with action group Plane Stupid, who want to block a third runway at Heathrow, got to the Transport...
