In the later months in opposition, when I and other economically minded Conservatives were giving advice to Shadow Ministers, we were often told that our tunes would change a year or two  into government. Wise Shadow Ministers knowingly explained to us that we might accept the  necessity of spending cuts in opposition,&n...

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) calls for a new body to be set up to protect workers from abuse and exploitation by bosses.

Nick Clegg says he has given up trying to adopt the right facial expression during Prime Minister's questions in case it is misinterpreted - and instead just sits and listens.

And so Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood. Here's the Cabinet Office statement (and some of my previous thoughts here): 'It will soon be announced in the London Gazette that the Knighthood conferred upon Fred Goodwin as a Knight Bachelor has been cancelled and annulled. This decision, not normally publicised in advance, was taken on the advice of the Forfeiture Committee, which advised...

Medical regulators are drawing up new advice for more than 30,000 Britons who have received “metal-on-metal” devices because of fears that they are even more dangerous than previously thought, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found. Problems occur with such devices when friction between the metal ball and cup causes minuscule metal filings to break off,

David Cameron can bestride the British political scene at the moment, calmly dispensing advice to other world leaders at Davos, with relatively little concern about being outmanouevred by the other party leaders. With the exception, perhaps, of Alex Salmond, and even he has had to force the pace of the Scottish Independence debate thanks to a Cameron tactical strike. But the two major English part...

When it comes to defending the free market, and making the case for fiscal sanity, there's scarcely anyone better than David Cameron. He was on superb form in Davos yesterday, giving much-needed blunt advice to the continentals. ‘Eurozone countries must do everything possible to get to grips with their own debts,’ he said. And he's right. The snag is that Cameron's ...

Reading Cameron's speech to the suits in Davos, one thing stands out: he's in no mood to stop ‘lecturing’ the eurozone, as Nicolas Sarkozy would put it. The whole thing is saturated with firm advice for our European brethren, from generalities such as ‘Tinkering here and there and hoping we’ll drift to a solution simply won’t cut it any more,’ to speci...

The SNP's Bruce Crawford said the Scottish government has legal advice that it can hold an "advisory referendum" on independence from the rest of the UK.

Education secretary announces lessons will be overhauled, drawing on the advice of leading businesses