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Lobbying: a ticking timebomb?

14.10.11
As Liam Fox's career hangs by a thread, Richard Godwin examines how corporations and interest groups try to influence government... more

Rooftop invasions spark plan for new railings round Parliament

06.10.11
Palace of Westminster officials want iron railings more than three metres high around Parliament in a bid to stop protesters climbing on the roof... more

Expenses fiddle peer freed after two months

12.09.11
A peer jailed for fiddling his expenses has been released from prison after serving just a quarter of his nine-month sentence... more

Osborne attacked for delaying bank reforms

12.09.11
George Osborne backs historic reforms of Britain's banks but faced a backlash over delaying them for up to eight years... more

MPs meet to discuss Britain's position in Europe

12.09.11
A new parliamentary group of eurosceptic Conservative MPs is to meet to discuss Britain's position in Europe amid growing unrest in the party... more

Sally Bercow overrules Speaker's point of order to go on Big Brother

17.08.11
Commons Speaker John Bercow pleads with his wife not to appear on Celebrity Big Brother, the Standard reveals... more

PM to address emergency Parliament over riot plans

11.08.11
An emergency session of Parliament will be held today to discuss the rioting and looting which has caused devastation across England and left three men who attempted to protect their community from the violence dead... more

Cooper: Boris has made it harder for Met to get to the truth of hacking

21.07.11
Interview: Yvette Cooper claims Boris Johnson has made it harder for the Met to get to the bottom of phone hacking as she balances the pressures of parliament with motherhood... more

The PM needs to get a grip on the Met right now

19.07.11
My first meeting with Sir Paul Stephenson was occasioned by the scandal which has now brought him down... more

Queen to get control over family members' money

01.07.11
The Queen will have 'real power' over the huge sums of money given to junior royals each year under the shake-up of Palace finances... more

Where are the rock stars on these strikes?

30.06.11
If you grew up, as I did, in the northern industrial heartlands, you certainly got the best of the culture wars the last time strikes divided the nation... more

London strike riots alert: Police on stand-by for mass public sector walkout

29.06.11
London is braced for the biggest day of industrial action in years as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare to go on strike... more

How can we save Parliament Square from this mess?

21.06.11
The peace camp, roadworks and terrorism deterrents have blighted the identity of Westminster and Whitehall... more

David Cameron: NHS rethink is proof that we can listen and learn

14.06.11
David Cameron put a brave face on the rewriting of his NHS reforms today by hailing the changes as an example of a listening government... more

Nick Clegg hails victory for Lib-Dems over changes to NHS reforms

13.06.11
Experts are to unveil recommendations on the Government's plans for the NHS after Nick Clegg claimed victory for the Liberal Democrats in the spat over the reforms... more

Ryan Giggs naming sparks a legal uproar over gagging orders

24.05.11
The law on injunctions has been thrown into turmoil after Ryan Giggs was named as the married footballer at the centre of a controversial privacy case... more

Judges and MPs clash on gagging orders

20.05.11
An excessive amount of gagging orders have been given to celebrities trying to hide details of their affairs, the country's top judges have admitted... more

Deputy Prime Minister will reveal plans for House of Lords elections

17.05.11
Nick Clegg will unveil plans for the first direct elections to the upper House of Parliament to take place in 2015... more

MPs tell ministers to get serious on discarded fish

17.05.11
MPs threaten 'huge trouble' if ministers ignore a Commons motion against EU laws that force fishermen to throw away perfectly good catches ... more

Wouldn't we all pay for privacy if we were able to?

28.04.11
The super-injunction is the natural consequence of the kiss-and-tell culture of redtop newspapers... more

David Cameron wades into privacy debate

21.04.11
David Cameron questions the role of judges handing out so-called super-injunctions to wealthy celebrities... more

MPs condemn 'illegal move' by David Cameron to get rid of Gaddafi

15.04.11
MPs demand a recall of Parliament, accusing David Cameron of seeking 'illegal' regime change in Libya ... more

Soaring inflation may spark second round of job cuts in public sector

24.03.11
Thousands more public sector workers could be axed in a second wave of job cuts, economists warned today... more

This time MPs can back war with their eyes open

21.03.11
Today Parliament debates British intervention in Libya free of the miasma of deception that took us into Iraq... more

Clumsy planning reforms hamper growth of UK plc

15.03.11
As he puts the finishing touches to his "Budget for Growth", Chancellor George Osborne should ponder the damage being done by one of the Coalition's biggest self-inflicted wounds so far... more

This referendum is about a lot more than vote reform

23.02.11
The upcoming national ballot concerns not so much the Alternative Vote system as Cameron versus Clegg... more

David Cameron declares war on human rights judges over 'appalling' sex offenders ruling

16.02.11
Prime Minister declares war on the Supreme Court over its decision to let sex offenders appeal against being kept on a police register for life... more

Stay firm on prisoner votes, Boris Johnson tells David Cameron

11.02.11
The Mayor waded into the row over prisoner votes today, telling David Cameron to 'stick to his guns' in a showdown with European judges... more

Prime Minister promises free vote on prisoner rights

02.02.11
David Cameron promised to let "Parliament have its say" today as MPs prepared to resoundingly reject giving the vote to prisoners... more

Feminism is for out of touch Lefties

25.01.11
The Tory MP who believes men are discriminated against by 'obnoxious bigots' talks to Pippa Crerar... more


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