Downing Street officials said the prime minister would speak to King Abdullah of Jordan by telephone before a visit by a home office minister to Amman next week

Downing Street today rejected Argentine claims that Britain is creating a risk to international security by "militarising" the long-running dispute over the Falkland Islands.

Downing Street denies claims by Argentina that it is "militarising the South Atlantic", in a dispute about the Falkland Islands.

The Prime Minister's late son was dragged into the debate about NHS reform in a move branded "tasteless" by Downing Street aides.

Jon Trickett MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, has sent a letter to Sir Jeremy Heywood on reports today on briefing from Downing Street against Andrew Lansley. In the letter he said:

Andrew Lansley has David Cameron's "full support", despite a Downing Street source reportedly saying the health secretary "should be taken out and shot".

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Downing Street suggestion in today’s Times newspaper that 'Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot': “David Cameron must make an urgent statement and clarify whether these remarks come from a rogue source, or reflect his own and majority opinion in 10 Downing Street.

Andrew Lansley should be grateful for small mercies. Rachel Sylvester's column (£) today may quote a Downing Street source to the effect that ‘Lansley should be taken out and shot’, but there is yet no sign that a hundred Conservative MPs will write to the Prime Minister to say that the Health Secretary's reforms have to stop. We've had such a letter for wind farms ...

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.

Afghan forces will take over lead security responsibility in all parts of Afghanistan by the end of next year, Downing Street says.