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With today's poll suggesting a shrinking Tory lead, David Cameron could find himself governing with a tiny majority or none at all A spectre is stalking the corridors of Westminster, the spectre of a hung parliament. The...
The Iraq inquiry will start hearing evidence in open session on Tuesday, and it will almost certainly lead to fireworks. Let us hope the media cover it properly; five months ago, there was a sharp debate on Iraq in the Commons...
Marie Woolf, Whitehall Editor THE health minister, Ann Keen, is facing a parliamentary inquiry after receiving £12,000 in expenses for an office at home, despite having three other official workplaces. Keen, a former...
Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March. Nigel Dickson Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is...
The Tory forced to stand down from the Commons standards committee refused to provide official assurances that he was not using his position as an MP to secure lucrative private work The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
Harvard study reveals the financial benefits of winning a seat in the House of Commons By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent After revelations about duck houses, moats and fake mortgages, many suspected it. In recent...
By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent Internet users who illegally download films and music will run the risk of being cut off from the web under new laws published by the Government today. Under the powers set out in the...
Harriet Harman was given strong backing by the Prime Minister today after it emerged she will be prosecuted for allegedly crashing her car while on a mobile phone. Ms Harman has been told she will receive a summons to be tried...
Not A great week for militant secularists. First, they failed to land a slot on Radio's Four's Thought For The Day. I hear the BBC's trustees feared this would open a Pandora's box and that all sorts of weirdos would start...
