The former prime minister is returning to frontline politics to play a key role in Labour's election campaign with a brief to target David Cameron's "failure" to modernise the Conservatives.

David Cameron has committed the Conservative Party to imposing a new tax on banks as both main parties battled to convince voters they would claw back billions of pounds from the financial sector.

Renewable energy companies say the Conservatives are planning to overhaul the environmental subsidy system by offering wind farm developers a 'feed-in-tariff' in place of renewables obligation

Imagine the following scenario. Labour (or the Conservatives) lose the general election. Gordon Brown (or David Cameron) resigns as party leader. With much of the rest of their frontbench team also discredited, the party elects a non-MP – the (ex) Mayor of London – as its leader. A sitting MP then resigns so the new party leader can stand

Congratulations to Councillor Nich Starling (aka Norfolk Blogger) who gained a seat yesterday from the Tories on Broadland District Council. The result, courtesy of ALDC: LD Nich Starling 630 (54.5; +24.3) Con 471 (40.8; -3.0) Green 54 (4.7; +4.7) [Other (0.0; -26.0)] Majority 159 Turnout 31% LD gain from Con Percentage change is since May 2007. This is a big swing from the Conservatives, (who

A Conservative government would ask MPs to fast-track the building of new nuclear power stations, David Cameron has announced.

The Canadian Conservatives won an election fighting against a carbon tax. The Financial Times reports that the British Conservatives are going to go into this election promoting one. Essentially, the tax would function as a floor on the price under...

In the past week, the Conservatives have been talking up their chances of doing a deal with the Liberal Democrats if the forthcoming general election fails to deliver them a working majority. Conservative shadow business secretary Ken Clarke has even suggested that “Nick Clegg is a conservative”. David Cameron meanwhile regularly describes himself as a “liberal

The Conservatives are calling on councils covering England's 55 statutory ports to suspend collection of up to £220m in backdated business rates in order to save companies from collapse

Political leaders have traded blows over "hidden unemployment" as the Conservatives seek to prevent Labour claiming credit for a third monthly decline in the jobless total.