There are many different reasons why I’m standing as a Liberal Democrat against Nick Griffin in Barking. Here is just one of them. My bus stop on the way home is outside Brixton station, next to Iceland supermarket. Waiting there, I recall what the BNP’s message of hatred can bring. For it was exactly at this spot

A bill being considered by MPs could bring rules about church weddings in Wales in line with England.

ITN's political editor, Tom Bradby has started blogging. Nick Watt and Patrick Wintour of The Guardian's politics team are now writing a joint blog. And there's Professor Philip Cowley's Election 2010 blog; an interesting attempt to bring academic insights to...

Southampton MP's John Denham and Alan Whitehead today jointly called on the Tories to abandon their plans to scrap extra jobs for young people. Itchen MP John Denham said: "We have got to keep investing in jobs through the recovery. That's why I am backing the Future Jobs Fund which will bring more jobs to the area, jobs that David Cameron wants to slash – it would be just like pre...

Promote money-making sites such as eBay and internet TV services to encourage poorer people to get online, a consumer watchdog has told the Government.

Promote money-making sites such as eBay and internet TV services to encourage poorer people to get online, a consumer watchdog has told the Government.

BANK of Scotland needs to be "brought home" as part of a break-up of Britain's gigantic financial institutions, a leading politician said last night.

Why does Britain fall for financial spin so often? The question goes well beyond the great confidence trick of Gordon Brown's ten years in the Treasury. I'm just back from three weeks in Australia. What’s always struck me in the years I’ve gone there is how different the newspapers/news shows/political debates are. They are well informed about macro-economics, and there is mu...

The European Union is planning to create a new super-prosecutor which would have powers to bring cases in British courts without the approval of the Crown Prosecution Service.

LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg has laid out "a vision for fairness" as he launched a scathing attack on Britain's bankers.