Tory MP David Curry admits having an affair only hours after quitting as chairman of Parliament’s anti-sleaze committee
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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
Dole queues in Britain will take eight years to fall below levels at the start of the economic crisis, leading economists warn
Harriet Harman today sought to seize control of £220 billion a year of public contracts to drive through an unprecedented equality crusade.
Gordon Brown warned that the campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan risks being jeopardised by doing 'too little, too late'
Catholic bishops warn that Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill could mean bans on Christmas celebrations
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
Britain is not engaged in a fight to the death with the Taliban, David Miliband said
David Cameron's allies were today accused of 'filling their boots' from second jobs before being forced to quit them
David Cameron battles to stop a 'turnip Taliban' revolt against a Tory candidate who had an affair spreading across the country
Founder of a London hedge fund being probed by Serious Fraud Office investigators denies any wrongdoing
Unemployment is spiralling among white collar workers in the capital as the new number of professionals signing on to the dole leaps
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 a 'death-bed conversion' on immigration by bowing to calls for tougher controls
Nearly 40 MPs back a campaign for their pay to rise and warned against huge cuts to their expenses
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 pays tribute to her 'proud little soldier' killed in Afghanistan on Sunday
The bodies of five British soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan policeman last week will return to Britain tomorrow.
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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