GORDON Brown yesterday moved to quell concerns that the future of the £5 billion aircraft carriers project was under threat.

Labour publishes A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party today published A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing prosperity with Labour, or...

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...

Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party is today publishing A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing prosperity with Labour, or a decade of austerity, low growth and low employment under the Tories. To read a c...

Two weeks ago, David Cameron delivered a brilliant speech. It keyed into exactly what Michael Wolff means by the phrase, 'Cameron is a politician who quells, smooths, conflates, reassures.' It offered hope and optimism, a future free of the current morass. In that case, why are the Tories still faltering? Cameron rode on the wake of Brown’s incompetence for eighteen months. It was ...

I am not Mystic Meg, but I would not book any rail travel for the Easter period.Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT union. No, Bob you're not Mystic Meg. You do share some of her qualities though, you're both full of shit and take a wage for pretending to do something. She pretends to predict the future you pretend to have your members interests at heart. This is the road we are now g...

In the third of our series on the future of health care, Victoria Lambert look at the hospitals built under Tony Blair's Private Finance Initiative.

THE future of British ship building will not be guaranteed under Labour if they win the election, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has admitted.

A new National Security Council, set up by the Conservatives, would ensure that future decisions about war were not taken "without notes" or just by the Prime Minister just having "little chats" with a close cabal of advisers.

It seems there must be discussion about a potential European Monetary Fund and an organisation to manage Europe’s economies that circumvents Maastricht to avert future fiscal crises. So much for Lisbon, the treaty to end all treaties. Quite why no one, especially the treaty's opponents, acknowledged the possibility of a member state's financial collapse whilst Lisbon was being rati...