Former Cabinet minister Frank Dobson has claimed he could not afford to move from his £1million council home into a private flat despite earning £66,000 a year... more
Security around a “superlab” planned next door to a major London railway station will be among the tightest in the capital amid fears of “domestic extremism”... more
Labour MPs reject plans to give their new leader the right to pick shadow cabinet members, giving potential for divisions in the party’s front rank... more
Ed Miliband becomes first contender for the Labour leadership to secure the 33 official nominations from fellow-MPs needed to get his name on ballot paper... more
A combination of humility, old-fashioned party management and sheer weight of numbers helped Gordon Brown survive the crunch meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party... more
A full inquiry into the scandal of MPs' pay and perks was speeded up as dozens of London MPs were set to pocket an inflation-busting rise of more than nine per cent... more
Interview: John Griffin of Addison Lee left school at 16 with TB and no exam passes. But he has learned how to grow a healthy, hi-tech business... more
A Labour MP who has campaigned against Heathrow expansion spoke of his "huge embarrassment" for siding with the Government over plans for a third runway... more
A High Court case against a city academy planned for Camden could derail the Government's drive to open hundreds more of the flagship schools, opponents claim... more
Protesters led by actor Tom Conti lay down in the road as they tried to save a historic London street from becoming a rat run for lorries from a nearby building site... more
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