Ministers plan to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get improved access to their offspring after a marriage breaks down, The Telegraph can reveal.

Ministers plan to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get improved access to their offspring after a marriage breaks down, the Telegraph can reveal.

If we defend inequality in marriage though not in the rest of society, we are guilty of gross hypocrisy, writes JP Floru.

From legalising same-sex marriage to guaranteeing media pluralism, a dizzying array of petitions is being prepared to suggest new laws to the European Commission under the new European Citizen's Initiative. More »

David Cameron would be acting like a "dictator" if he allowed same-sex unions to be called marriages, says the Archbishop of York.

The Archbishop of York says that while civil partnerships are fine, marriage must only be between a man and a woman.

David Cameron will be acting like a "dictator" if he allows homosexual couples to wed, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu says in an interview with The Telegraph.

Now that the Tory party is about to embark on an unedifying internal spat over the gay marriage vote, I would commend students of political history to read Michael McManus’s beautifully written and well-researched book Tory Pride and Prejudice: the Conservative Party and Homosexual Reform. Readers may be surprised to learn that supporters of the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in privat...

At the time they stated: “Where there is a valid polygamous marriage the claimant and one spouse will be paid the couple rate … The amount payable for each additional spouse is presently £33.65.” This has subsequently been increased to £38.45 a week for second and subsequent spouses, while the husband and his first wife

Timeline of Chris Huhne's career, including his marriage to Vicky Pryce, his affair with Carina Trimingham and his appointment as Energy Secretary in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition.