The armed forces face losing important skills because of the speed of government spending cuts are being implemented, Whitehall's spending watchdog says.

David Cameron says the government will intensify moves to win back the tender from Dassault’s Rafale, but experts suggest the attempt is in vain

                 Yesterday Parliament debated the  local government settlement for next year. Most of the discussion was about cuts.  Labour argued that the amount of Exchequer finance for local government was not enough, but declined to suggest how much more should be awarded or where the money might come fr...

British businesses could be forced to appoint fixed quotas of women to their boards of directors under radical plans being considered by the Government.

Business Select Committee member Paul Blomfield MP has slammed Conservative members of the Committee for opposing the appointment of Bedfordshire Vice-Chancellor Professor Les Ebdon as Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA). Professor Ebdon was selected for the job of Director of OFFA by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Universities Minister David Willetts, from a shortlist prepared by a ...

Al Qaeda is now at "its weakest state" since the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a senior national security adviser.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has urged David Cameron to drop plans to overhaul the NHS, branding the government's flagship Health and Social Care Bill a "complete disaster".

Peers voted by a majority of only four to back an amendment giving mental health equal importance to physical ailments within the NHS, which the government had opposed

Would rent controls be the worst method of controlling housing benefit aside from all the others? With its mixture of good ideas and painful ones, the Welfare Reform Bill going through Parliament is causing more anguish among Liberal Democrats than anything since… Well, since the last horrible compromise the Coalition Government came up with. The logic is relentless: Labour wrecked the econ...

We will soon find out whether the coalition meant what it said about empowering parliament. The BIS select committee has rejected the government’s preferred candidate for the post of the head of the Office of Fair Access. The committee concluded that it was ‘unable to endorse the appointment of Professor Ebdon as the Director of OFFA and we recommend that the Department conduct a new r...