Prime Minister David Cameron is looking at plans to shorten school holidays to improve families' work-life balance - and was immediately backed by female MPs... more
Searing tensions exploded in the Coalition as one of David Cameron's closest aides was branded a 'renegade' for plotting to undermine policies agreed by Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable... more
The talk of parachuting in the American "supercop" Bill Bratton to sort out the Met has touched a nerve. David Cameron's free-thinking adviser Steve Hilton reportedly considers it a "no brainer"... more
Comment: David Cameron's choice of footwear on his recent trip to Italy has been widely discussed. Nick Curtis gives his verdict on the Prime Minister's 'pasty mankles'... more
Comment: Surely Soho House wouldn't boot someone out just for looking dapper? But that fate has befallen Peter Bingle. This persecuted individual must now seek amnesty in the Groucho or Blacks.... more
David Cameron is in danger of losing one of his closest and most senior allies at No10 amid Tory jitters that the Coalition is retreating from truly radical policies... more
David Cameron's new media best man made an impression on his first day: Craig Oliver strode forth with his manbag thrown casually over his shoulder, iPod wires entwined with wide-knotted check scarf, and an open-cuffed, salmon pink shirt... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
Here's a loud message from the ad industry to the Tories: the single biggest client winner at last night’s Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Effectiveness Awards was the Central Office of Information... more
Downing Street has been transformed — no longer Labour’s ‘unhappy house at No 10’, it now buzzes with the key figures of clan Cameron and the Coalition, as Anne McElvoy reports... more
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
In preparing for the election campaign launch in Westminster, and the bruising months ahead, David Cameron has faced a quandary: the knowledge that he must be honest with voters about the scale of the task, while giving them reasons to feel optimistic... more
Strategy supremo Steve Hilton and internet queen Rachel Whetstone are the power couple in David Cameron’s court. But can their web of influence
reach a new generation of voters?... more
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