An official report into former defence secretary Liam Fox's links with his self-styled adviser Adam Werritty is to find he breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct... more
Liam Fox plans to continue his Atlantic Bridge project from the backbenches despite the row over his friend Adam Werritty, friends have revealed to the Evening Standard... more
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Clegg admitted he got an internship at a bank through family connections - after attacking the way internships go to 'sharp elbowed' wealthy families... more
Furious MPs beak ranks to attack new expenses rules that hand them thousands of pounds extra to spend on children, travel, staff and accommodation... more
MPs have agreed to forgo a 1% pay rise for themselves and freeze their £65,738 salaries, bringing them into line with the majority of public sector workers who have had their pay frozen for the next two years... more
One of the more troubling aspects of the row surrounding the London School of Economics' one-time student Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, is the role in the preparation of his thesis of Monitor Group, the management consultancy... more
Connecting with the Facebook generation is the big issue for marketers. So little wonder that 71% of UK businesses are ambitious to improve their social media presence, according to a survey of 1000 companies by OfficeCavalry.com... more
The men who run the taxpayers' stakes in Britain's bank face a grilling from MPs next week as the row over bonuses and a lack of lending continues to fuel public anger... more
Sketch: The “unacceptable face of banking” as Lord Mandelson once dubbed him, does his level best to look totally acceptable before the Treasury Select Committee ... more
MPs have submitted more than £115,000 worth of illegitimate expense claims since the introduction of tough new rules designed to clean-up the Commons, it was revealed... more
Downing Street said the Prime Minister had 'full confidence' in International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell as he faced a possible anti-sleaze probe over his links to a cocoa magnate... more
Former Tory leader Michael Howard became the latest Conservative to come under fire over their country homes today as it emerged the taxpayer paid for £17,000 of his gardening work... more
The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. ... more
A Scottish businessman, fighting for thousands of British investors, claims the Chelsea owner settled old scores and stoked his £15 billion fortune with an audacious energy scam ... more
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