George Osborne spent more than £30,000 of taxpayers' money overhauling Number 11 Downing Street in the year following the election, official documents revealed on Friday night.

Royal College of General Practitioners adds 26,000 members to number of UK NHS clinical and medical staff calling for the scrapping of the bill

Chris Huhne is under pressure not to claim to a severance payment of more than £17,000 he is due after he quit as Energy secretary.

Labour Westminster Councillors say that the prospect of the election of a new Leader of Westminster City Council by just 48 Conservative Councillors, 47 of whom consistently voted to support outgoing Leader Colin Barrow's failed West End parking charge plans, is an 'insult to democracy'. Labour say that the new Leader of the Council should be elected by all 250,000 Westminster resid...

Local Labour MP John Denham has reacted angrily to the 8.2% hike in water bills by Southern Water, the highest increase in the country. He's accused Southern Water and the City Council of wasting money and driving up bills. Warning that many families will struggle to meet the new charges he said that it is particularly galling that Southern Water has to spend £500,000 on replacing a sew...

Sir David Higgins becomes latest figure at centre of bonus row, with company set to approve plan to give 60pc of salary as bonus.

Britain does not need more "middle managers" or unskilled Labour and those coming in should be able to command a salary of more than £31,000, immigration minister Damian Green said.

A BBC Newsnight investigation reveals that the Student Loans Company's chief executive Ed Lester received his £182,000 pay package without deductions for tax or National Insurance.

A very useful contribution from Lord Ashcroft this morning, in the form of a poll he’s commissioned on Scottish independence. What sets Ashcroft’s poll apart from previous surveys is that he asks three different questions to three different sets of around 1,000 Scots.   The first is the question Alex Salmond wants on the ballot paper at the referendum: ‘Do you agree that Sco...

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.