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Oliver Letwin... He's bin foolish

14.10.11
Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin has promised to stop dumping official documents in public rubbish bins after he was caught disposing of letters in St James's Park... more

Lessons of the riots on police numbers

14.10.11
The fact that violent crime dropped in parts of London after the riots is proof of a seemingly obvious truth: that more police on the streets and more criminals being jailed mean lower crime... more

Nick Clegg warns Tory minister over 'insult' to Sheffield

05.04.11
Nick Clegg warned Cabinet colleague to 'tread with care' in Sheffield after he reportedly said he 'did not want to see more families in Sheffield able to afford cheap holidays' ... more

Oliver Letwin 'said he was against cheap holidays for ordinary people'

04.04.11
Ministers were accused of double standards after policy chief Oliver Letwin apparently said the Government did not want more ordinary people taking cheap holidays abroad ... more

Forces are stretched to breaking point. Something will snap

04.04.11
COMMENTARY: Usually governments wait for the wars to be over before they sack the soldiers and send the kit to the scrapyard ... more

Match of Today - David Cameron v Ed Miliband

16.02.11
Miliband provoked a handbrake turn on the forests by asking, drooling sarcasm: 'Are you happy with your flagship policy on forestry?'... more

Oliver Letwin is the reasonable politician who bankers feel they can trust

12.01.11
Business profile: Oliver Letwin has been leading the Government side in secret talks with banks over pay... more

Tapes reveal Lib-Dem contempt for Tory 'partners'

23.12.10
Personal animosity of a number of Liberal Democrat ministers towards David Cameron and George Osborne laid bare... more

Standard Chartered will always be a British success

09.12.10
Peter Sands has every right to feel smug - here he is again predicting that Standard Chartered is on for another record-breaking year... more

How the Conservatives learned to love us gays

16.06.10
David Cameron's first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender garden party marks the end of a long journey for the Conservative party... more

Danny Alexander must remain canny under the City's fierce glare

02.06.10
Profile: Danny Alexander’s appointment as Chief Secretary has come as a shock but not to those who know him... more

Tory manifesto: The blue book that speaks volumes

13.04.10
Commentary: At 28,045 words, today’s Conservative manifesto is wilfully dull looking - but open the 118 pages and it document that speaks volumes about how David Cameron’s party see themselves... more

David Cameron’s shadow cabinet team to repay £24,782 in expenses

18.12.09
David Cameron’s shadow cabinet team agrees to repay a total of £24,782 in over-claimed expenses, as Labour minister faces expenses probe... more

Cameron allies 'fill boots' with second jobs

16.11.09
David Cameron's allies were today accused of 'filling their boots' from second jobs before being forced to quit them... more

Tory’s £1,250 per hour for writing

29.06.09
Sennior Tory Michael Gove is earning up to £1,250 an hour for a newspaper column, the Tories disclosed today... more

Bank pays Oliver Letwin £60,000 a year

25.06.09
Senior Tory Oliver Letwin is paid £60k for working just an eight-hour week as controversy over second jobs mounts ... 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

Cabinet ministers join scramble to pay back money

19.06.09
Three Cabinet ministers including would-be Chancellor Ed Balls have admitted over-claiming hundreds of pounds on their expenses for mortgages interest... more

We want to be chancellor but can't do expenses

19.06.09
The men who would be Chancellor - Labour's Ed Balls and Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne - today both admitted they had blundered in their Commons expenses and paid back money... more

I'll still vote Tory, says the £5m donor expelled for backing UKIP

27.05.09
One Sunday, three months ago, Stuart Wheeler received a curt email from the Tory chairman, Eric Pickles, saying he'd been expelled from the party ... more

Those who lie down with Hoggs

13.05.09
The revelations about MPs' expenses - Tories, in particular - has left a string of City folk looking red-faced... ... more

David Cameron: Pay back expenses or you’re sacked

12.05.09
David Cameron warned Tory MPs to pay back ‘dodgy’ expenses or be sacked... more

Senior Tories earn thousands from banks they criticise

22.01.09
The Tory shadow cabinet has been raking in thousands of pounds in cash and perks from failing banks... more

Hague is new Tory No 2, putting Osborne in shade

14.01.09
David Cameron has promoted William Hague to be "my deputy in all but name"... more

Brown tells of day he invited burglar into his parents' home

30.12.08
Gordon Brown told how as a child he let a notorious burglar into his parents' home... more

Tories to set out how they will run the country at party rally

11.08.08
David Cameron will seek to propel the Tories towards government at his party's autumn rally by openly talking about how they would run Britain... 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


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