Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, responding to the Health Select Committee Report on Social Care, said:

Juncker: ???I wouldn???t exclude a treaty change in the coming months???; European Commission rejects Dutch calls for eurozone exit mechanism

New Open Europe briefing: EU banks could need up to ???370bn in event of painful, but necessary eurozone debt restructuring; ECB exposure to PIIGS increased from ???444bn to ???590bn in only four months

On Sunday Jenny Willott wrote an article on LDV explaining the reasons behing Lib Dem MPs voting to reject the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill. However, I’m afraid that, as someone who has been campaigning on this for several months, I am not satisfied with her explanation and think that there are several

The Al-Qaeda preacher Abu Qatada is a Jordanian national who is in the UK illegally (having come here in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport). The headache he has caused successive UK governments looks like finally reaching a peak. But there is a simple solution to the problem he poses. Last month, not only for the first time in the decade-long Qatada process, but for the first time eve...

Spring Conference this year is from 9-11 March at NewcastleGateshead. The Conference Agenda has been finalised and is now available online. For those members who registered for conference before 31 January, hard copies will be arriving through the post very soon and your pass will follow at the end of the month. If you haven’t

White guilt has terrible consequences. This was made profoundly clear in Canada during the three month trial of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed. They were convicted a week ago of the first-degree murder of Zainab (19), Sahar (17) and Geeti Shafia (13), and 50-year-old Rona Amir. The three teens were Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Yahya’s daughters, Hamed’s sisters....

             In the later months in opposition, when I and other economically minded Conservatives were giving advice to Shadow Ministers, we were often told that our tunes would change a year or two  into government. Wise Shadow Ministers knowingly explained to us that we might accept the  necessity of spending cuts in opposition,&n...

... to save the NHS, says Ed Miliband. My first thought was, gosh, that's nice, three months in which to kill it. I suspect that I am in a minority: the outpouring of love, loyalty and vows to defend the NHS unto death from the Guardian commenters to this report and to Miliband's own article resemble nothing so much as the frenzied cries of "Deus vult!" that greeted Pope Urban II when he...

The political comeback of David Laws has been delayed to allow the former Liberal Democrat Treasury minister to get a "big government job" within months, it has emerged.