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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...
They called it "the Barking cough". First it began like any other: a tickle in the chest and slight pain on breathing. Then, within a matter of months, the sufferer was in agony, gasping for air and eventually suffocating to...
Hark, fellow peasants, the House of Lords hath charitably queried its masters and shall permit a rather uncouth “bill of laws” to sully the golden carpets and golden chairs of its exclusive bordello of gold and money and...
When Pitt the Younger died, he was succeeded as Prime Minister by Lord Grenville, who, well aware of his own ineptitude, tried to give substance to his administration by including as many talented statesmen as possible, even...
Under fire: Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has been accused of encouraging people to break Britain's suicide laws Roman Catholic bishops yesterday accused Britain’s chief prosecutor of encouraging people to break...
The health care debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House and back again. Now it's back in the Senate, as the United States tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without universal...
The EU's new foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton smiles as she addresses the media at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. The EU leaders agreed on trade commissioner Catherine Ashton of Britain...
With the European Union's top new jobs going to two low-key bridge-builders, the bloc appears to have set its sights on smoothing over internal divisions before trying to construct a bigger global role.
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,...
The appointment as a little-known peer to become Europe's first "foreign minister" stunned and dismayed many in Westminster today, prompting a barrage of briefing against Britain's most senior female politician.
