NEW: Harriet Harman faces acute political embarrassment as she was accused of getting off lightly for crashing her car while using a mobile phone... more
Tony Blair was so drunk with power that he used 'alarming subterfuge' to mislead British people into war against Iraq, one of his former senior civil servants claims... more
It is time for journalists to rebuild a relationship with politicians. This sounds crazy after the expenses debacle and in view of the daily drip-drip of poison administered to MPs in newspapers on a daily basis.... more
Ministers set out plans to record the internet and phone activity of every citizen - despite abandoning the idea of a state database to store the details... more
A former Director of Public Prosecutions lambasted Labour's record on tackling financial crime as he declared that fraudulent bankers are more of a danger to society than terrorists... more
The Prime Minister has paid a visit to Canary Wharf, where he talked about wanting London to remain “one of the world's leading financial centres”
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Sir Ian Blair has faced a turbulent threeanda-half years since taking over as Metropolitan Police Commissioner in February 2005, culminating in today's unprecedented decision to stand down... more
A call by Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair for celebrities who are filmed apparently taking drugs to be put on trial prompted an angry response from Britain's chief prosecutor... more
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