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Nicholas Cecil, Chief Political Correspondent

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I had affair, admits Tory after quitting anti-sleaze committee

Tory MP David Curry admits having an affair only hours after quitting as chairman of Parliament’s anti-sleaze committee

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Tough new laws to target illegal downloaders

People who illegally download music and films could have their internet connection cut off under legislation unveiled

Karzai begins second term with pledge on corruption

Video: Hamid Karzai was inaugurated as Afghan president for a second term as America and Britain gambled on him tackling government corruption to defeat the Taliban insurgency

Jobless total won't recover until 2017

Dole queues in Britain will take eight years to fall below levels at the start of the economic crisis, leading economists warn

Harman’s equality rules to decide £220bn contracts

Harriet Harman today sought to seize control of £220 billion a year of public contracts to drive through an unprecedented equality crusade.

Afghan tactics ‘may be too little, too late’

Gordon Brown warned that the campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan risks being jeopardised by doing 'too little, too late'

Harman Bill could lead to ban on Christmas celebrations

Catholic bishops warn that Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill could mean bans on Christmas celebrations

TA soldier killed after two weeks was awaiting kit

British soldier killed only two weeks after arriving in Afghanistan had complained about a lack of new body armour and helmets, it was revealed this afternoon

Miliband: Afghan war is not a fight to the death

Britain is not engaged in a fight to the death with the Taliban, David Miliband said

Cameron allies 'fill boots' with second jobs

David Cameron's allies were today accused of 'filling their boots' from second jobs before being forced to quit them

David Cameron warns 'turnip Taliban' they could damage whole party

David Cameron battles to stop a 'turnip Taliban' revolt against a Tory candidate who had an affair spreading across the country

Fraud investigation into Mayfair-based hedge fund

Founder of a London hedge fund being probed by Serious Fraud Office investigators denies any wrongdoing

Victims of the white collar recession as professionals sign on the dole

Unemployment is spiralling among white collar workers in the capital as the new number of professionals signing on to the dole leaps

Taxpayers hit with £13million bill for empty Eurostar terminal

Taxpayers are to be hit with a bill of up to £13million to keep Waterloo's international terminal in mothballs, the Standard reveals

Gordon Brown accused of ‘death-bed’ immigration vow

Gordon Brown accused of a 'death-bed conversion' on immigration by bowing to calls for tougher controls

MPs demand pay rise in lieu of cut expenses

Nearly 40 MPs back a campaign for their pay to rise and warned against huge cuts to their expenses

Obama wants Nato to send troops for 'surge'

Barack Obama is on a collision course with many of the Nato allies over their refusal so far to deploy more troops to Afghanistan

Mother’s grief for ‘her proud little soldier’

Mother pays tribute to her 'proud little soldier' killed in Afghanistan on Sunday

British troops killed by policeman flown home

The bodies of five British soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan policeman last week will return to Britain tomorrow.

US will send 34,000 more troops but not until March

British military chiefs called for a swift troop surge in Afghanistan amid reports that extra US forces may not arrive until March

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