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Tories pledge to give rights to grandparents

26.10.09

Grandparents will be given new rights to maintain contact with their grandchildren if the Conservatives win power... more

Students to face higher tuition fees after election

14.10.09

Students face higher tuition fees after next election as Tories hint they are prepared to consider raising the current Ł3,225 a-year charge... more

MPs disclose contents of expenses letters

14.10.09

These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more

50,000 students waiting for cash? That's reasonable, says loans chief

17.09.09

Head of the student loans agency caused outrage today by saying it was 'reasonable' for 50,000 people to start university without their grants... more

More women graduates finding jobs than men

17.08.09

Women graduates are proving more successful at weathering the employment crisis than their male peers, new figures reveal... more

50,000 students turned away from universities

09.07.09

As many as 50,000 students will be denied university places this summer amid record demand for degree courses... more

How the Tories were Googled?

09.07.09

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

Tougher times for graduates with a third more out of work

02.07.09

Students are facing a jobs crisis after graduate unemployment soared by a third... more

Tory’s Ł1,250 per hour for writing

29.06.09

Sennior Tory Michael Gove is earning up to Ł1,250 an hour for a newspaper column, the Tories disclosed today... more

Top Tories to give up second jobs by next year

29.06.09

David Cameron announces that all of his shadow ministers would give up their second jobs by the end of the year, but dismisses suggestions outside interests were incompatible with being a good MP ... more

Big push for Norwich seat

22.06.09

David Cameron has ordered a full-scale campaign to clinch the Norwich North seat after the local Labour MP Ian Gibson quit... 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

Graduates face jobless future

11.06.09

Up to 40,000 university graduates could still be unemployed in six months because of the recession... more

Payback time for greedy MPs over expenses

13.05.09

The “payback” of MPs expenses gathered pace as ministers and Labour MPs scrambled to refund the taxpayer... more

What they claimed: MPs expenses in full

12.05.09

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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

Tories in trouble - claim for 25 lightbulbs

11.05.09

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Politicians living near Keens don't claim for second home

03.04.09

Husband and wife London MPs Alan and Ann Keen, who have together claimed Ł213,000 of taxpayers' money for a second home in the capital, came under renewed fire... more

Colleges chief resigns over funding fiasco

23.03.09

The head of the college funding council resigned with a Ł100,000 pay-off after major errors left the Government's Ł5billion rebuilding programme in crisis... more

Charge students Ł6,500 a year in fees, say university chiefs

17.03.09

The debate over the future of university tuition fees began in earnest as vice-chancellors demanded the right to charge nearly Ł7,000 a year... more

Funding is slashed at top research colleges

05.03.09

Some of London's most prestigious universities will miss out on vital funding after having research grants reduced... more

You’ll work for free or not at all, graduates warned

11.02.09

Graduates will be forced to work for free for the first time in a generation as firms axe jobs, employers warned... more

Stop kidding yourself, Harriet: there’s only one road to social mobility

14.01.09

The Government wants, rightly, to broaden opportunities. But imposing equality by law is not the way to do it – the answer lies, again, in our schools... more

Free childcare and money for poor to tackle class divide

13.01.09

Free childcare for deprived youngsters and new laws to narrow the gap between rich and poor were unveiled by ministers as they vowed to end Britain's "class divide"... more

Sam tastes life on the council estate

01.10.08

Samantha Cameron took a break from the Tory party conference in Birmingham to visit a council estate... more

Skills shortage 'will affect Olympic sites'

29.09.08

The building of London's Olympics venues will face a skills shortage because too few Londoners were being trained as builders, the Tories claim... more

A future Tory Cabinet ... at least according to Tatler

09.09.08

Ten young Conservatives - billed as the party's stars of the future - have been transformed from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses... more

Putney MP is tipped for key role in Tory cabinet

14.07.08

Two high-flying Tory women MPs are expected to be drafted into the shadow cabinet as David Cameron bids to build on his "feminist" credentials and sharpens up his team to face Gordon Brown... more