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Ex-ministers warn over childcare tax changes

11.11.09
Gordon Brown faces a Labour revolt over plans to axe childcare tax breaks as nine former Cabinet ministers warned that the party risked losing the support of working mothers... more

Patricia Hewitt's son apologises after being fined £250 for cocaine

30.09.09
Son of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt publicly apologised to her in court after he was fined £250 for buying cocaine... more

Arsenal fan raises his voice in Russia

23.09.09
Cuddly would-be Arsenal owner Alisher Usmanov is strenthening his grip on Russia’s media... ... more

Former Health Secretary's son charged with cocaine possession

21.09.09
Patricia Hewitt's son charged with possession of cocaine following Camden night out... more

Labour ‘spin’ condemned for rescue talks leak

11.09.09
New Labour’s “spin machine” came under fire after the MG Rover report attacked a special adviser for “irresponsible” media briefings over the car company’s future... more

City Spy: Shining some light on Defence bids

07.09.09
The Gray report on defence procurement talks of £2.5 billion annual cost overruns on various MoD projects. One solution is to democratise the whole government procurement process... more

Tories ditch second jobs in attempt to outflank voter fury

22.06.09
Tory policy chief Oliver Letwin leads a rush of shadow Cabinet ministers giving up lucrative second jobs... more

Politicians who are standing down

05.06.09
These are the politicians who have announced they are quitting since the expenses scandal engulfed Westminster last month... more

Women Against Gordon outnumber few who keep faith

04.06.09
The WAGs are coming for Gordon. In the Prime Minister’s turmoil, a striking fact is how many of Labour’s senior female ranks are now in at the kill. “Women Against Gordon” is the name they have privately given themselves... more

Embattled Brown faces Cameron in Commons duel

03.06.09
Gordon Brown faces a Commons grilling after a day of resignations, fresh expenses revelations and party dissent fuelled fresh questions about his leadership... more

How much longer can this ghost of a leader survive?

03.06.09
The Cabinet is crumbling, and with it, Gordon Brown’s grip on a party that is forsaking him... more

Furious Blears and ‘sisterhood’ lead war on Brown

03.06.09
Hazel Blears' mobile phone nearly melted with messages of support from women MPs today amid claims that the Labour “sisterhood” was leading the charge against Gordon Brown... more

The latest MPs who are quitting the Commons

02.06.09
These are the latest MPs who have announced they are quitting the Commons as the expenses scandal continues to claim scalps... more

More Labour MPs rush to quit as Hoon apologises for claim

02.06.09
Sleaze-tainted David Chaytor joined the rollcall of shamed MPs standing down at the next election... more

Mother said 'I don’t want you in that dirty world of politics'

22.05.09
This, says 23-year-old Georgia Gould, was the toughest, most shattering experience of her life. She did not see it coming, she admits, because at first nobody paid much attention to her attempt to win selection for the soon-to-be-vacated Labour seat of Erith and Thamesmead... more

Another Brown Budget, another pensions raid

23.04.09
That was not a Budget for the City and it was never going to be. Even the pre-Budget lobbying from the Square Mile was low-key and barely audible above the screams of pain from industry and the services sector... more

Baby Labour

22.04.09
Georgia Gould isn’t the only child of a Labour dynasty making her mark in politics. Emily Hill reveals the other holders of famous names following the family tradition... more

Politicians face curbs on second jobs outside Commons

08.04.09
Some MPs collecting tens of thousands of pounds in expenses are working “part-time” in Parliament, Gordon Brown has admitted... more

1 in 3 GPs would help terminally ill die

24.03.09
A third of doctors would help terminally ill patients die with a lethal dose of drugs, it was revealed... more

MPs win right to a free vote over 'suicide clinics' abroad

20.03.09
The Commons is given a free vote on moves towards making assisted suicide legal... more

GP centre shelved due to poorly property market

02.01.09
A major new health centre in London has been postponed due to the economic downturn... more

Social worker who warned ministers ‘was pushed from pillar to post’

14.11.08
The lawyer for a whistleblower who warned that Haringey social services were failing to protect children — six months before the death of Baby P — accused ministers today of pushing his client “from pillar to post”.... more

Dangerous games in a billionaires' playground

23.10.08
Earlier this year I rubbed St Tropez'd shoulders in Moscow with Polina Deripaska, the beautiful young wife of Oleg, the Russian billionaire whose yacht soirées have got first Peter Mandelson and now George Osborne into such trouble... more

We must keep the flexitime option, especially through these tough times

22.10.08
As the recession bites, all but the most shrewd businessmen and politicians panic and make hasty statements they will rue... more

Nuclear policy is back to Plan A as French dump BE

01.08.08
City shareholders killed off the £12 billion sell-off of British Energy to the French at the eleventh hour after an evening of fraught tensions in the Square Mile... more

Call to ban MPs from lucrative second jobs

24.07.08
MPs could be banned from taking second jobs under plans being drawn up by a minister... more

NHS to scrap mixed-sex patient areas within a year

01.05.08
Mixed-sex accommodation in NHS hospitals will be abolished within the next 12 months, Health Secretary Alan Johnson promised... more

Nuclear bet that turned this hired gun into an energy hero

26.03.08
Bill Coley's appointment as chief executive of Britain's top power producer may have smacked of desperation but he's now made it an attractive takeover target... more

Princess Diana told me to hold my head high

03.04.07
At a film premiere in Leicester Square tonight, a woman who killed her own husband after years of horrific abuse will be hailed an unlikely heroine. This is her remarkable story. ... more

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