Prospective Labour MP calls on Tory to apologise for suggesting a third of public sector workers could lose their job. Jack Scott, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Hallam, has today called for his Conservative opponent to apologise for suggesting every public sector worker in Sheffield would lose their job. Nicola Bates, the Conservative Candidate for Sheffield Hall...

A Conservative government would allow a new nuclear power station to be opened every 18 months to address the threat of a power shortage according to Greg Clark, the shadow energy spokesman.

Henry Featherstone is Head of Policy Exchange's Health Unit. Let us come straight to the point. Smoking kills people. It kills tens of thousands of people in England every year, in a gruesome and horrific way. In fact it’s most...

Tonight, Hilary Benn, the environment secretary, said the ban would have both financial and environmental benefits. It would cut greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites and from manufacturing new products such as cans and bottles from virgin materials. It would also save councils money on the landfill tax charged for every tonne

The Watcher's Council is a group of some of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. Then, we vote on the ones in each category..with the results appearing on Friday. So, let's see what we have this week.... Council Submissions Wolf Howling - AP Goes APE ...

Off the coast of Somalia HNLMS Tromp is busy with operation Sweeping Broom. Well, of the coast of the Seychelles would be more accurate. According to legend the namegiver of the ship, admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, raised a broom in the mast at one time, to indicate he had swept the English from the sea. Since then every naval ship with the name Tromp has a broom on board. And at special occa...

What I'm going to say now may surprise some of you, but I've always admired Dennis Kucinich's integrity. He and I disagree on almost every issue, but I've always considered him a principled and honest congressman. Unlike a lot of the creatures in DC, he's never been known for personally enriching himself at the trough, his record has been squeaky clean and he has always be...

He did it. We saw him. It actually happened.  History was made at PMQs today as Gordon Brown finally gave a direct answer to a direct question. Not only that, he admitted he'd been wrong about something. Tony Baldry (Con, Banbury) informed the PM that his assertion before the Chilcot Inquiry that defence spending has risen, in real terms, every year has been contradicted by figures relea...

PM admits claims he made in the House of Commons and in evidence to Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry that he increased defence spending in real terms every year, had been incorrect.

Prime Minister accepts budget did not rise every year, and corrects his evidence to the Iraq Inquiry