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Senior MPs ‘use delaying tactics to avoid paying back expenses’

06.11.09
Senior MPs threatened to defy demands to repay expenses that were deemed to be over-claimed by auditor Sir Thomas Legg... more

Kennedy's two resignations in three years

08.06.09
Jane Kennedy quit Gordon Brown's government today... three years after resigning from Tony Blair's... more

Gordon Brown accused of 'fear and smears'

08.06.09
Gordon Brown was clinging on despite another ministerial resignation and savage attacks on his leadership... more

The least effective assassination bid ever

08.06.09
One question stalks the foiled attempt on Gordon Brown's political life: why was it so singularly inefficient?... more

Study to allay GM food fears

18.03.09
Government scientists are to launch a new study into genetically modified foods which could be used to persuade the public that the foods are safe... more

Ministers admit: 'We pay our husbands and wives'

12.03.09
Nearly 30 members of the Government employ their family at the taxpayer's expense, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Councils refuse to pilot 'pay as you throw' bin tax

21.01.09
No councils have come forward to take part in the controversial "pay-as-you-throw" waste trial aimed at boosting recycling... more

Pay-as-you-throw bin tax trials thrown out

21.01.09
Pay-as-you-throw bin taxes were killed off after town halls boycotted trials of the new levies... more

Supermarkets to halve free plastic bags

18.12.08
Supermarkets promised to slash the number of plastic bags they hand out to escape having to impose a charge on them... more

Shops must reduce bag use

26.11.08
Retailers will be told to cut the use of plastic bags or face legislation to make shoppers pay for them... more

Big spender Gordon's plan to save his skin

06.08.08
The PM is preparing an autumn offensive to restore his standing - at the cost of yet more public debt ... more

Alistair Darling calls in City chiefs to avoid tax row exodus

19.05.08
The Chancellor is to bring senior executives from Britain's leading multinationals "into the tent" in a bid to stave off an exodus abroad of major companies over a tax row... more

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