Greek MPs among the highest paid in Europe

An independent Scotland would not receive the highest credit rating in the event a referendum on independence from Britain was successful, economists warned.

Local Labour MP John Denham has reacted angrily to the 8.2% hike in water bills by Southern Water, the highest increase in the country. He's accused Southern Water and the City Council of wasting money and driving up bills. Warning that many families will struggle to meet the new charges he said that it is particularly galling that Southern Water has to spend £500,000 on replacing a sew...

French lawmakers appealed to their country's highest court yesterday (31 January) to overturn a law that makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. More »

It looks like Dave’s still made of Teflon. Even after the economy shrank by 0.2 per cent and the unemployment rate rose to its highest point since 1995, the public still think his party is better at handling the economy than Labour. And the Tories’ lead on what is by far the most important issue to voters hasn’t just survived all this bad economic news — it’s actually...

The Scottish government is to unveil how it will tackle youth unemployment which is at its highest for a generation.

Alan Whitehead pressed the Government in Parliament yesterday over measures to tackle spiralling house prices and rents in the south of England. In Southampton, the average house price is now 9 times the average income, and the average rent for a two-bed home now accounts for 46% of the average income - one of the highest rent to income ratios in the country. Shelter's Private Rent Watch (p50...

            Modern politics is besotted by all three main parties chasing the fairness vote. In a time of austerity, they intone, it is important that government is fair.             At the highest level I have no problem with this. What politican or political party would want to make unfairnes...

London's highest paid tube driver enjoys an annual "platinum-plated" pay and benefits package worth more than £61,000, new figures show.

It's a gruesome job, but someone has to go there. Is Nick Clegg suffering from split personality or memory loss? He tells an interviewer that he & Cameron will have to take a view if Huhne is charged: Of course, that is a very serious issue if that were to arise. We as a Government want the highest standards of probity to be in place in everything that is done by Cabinet members.Messa...