No 10 insists Andrew Lansley has David Cameron's "full support" over planned NHS changes, including giving GPs more control over budgets.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Downing Street suggestion in today’s Times newspaper that 'Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot': “David Cameron must make an urgent statement and clarify whether these remarks come from a rogue source, or reflect his own and majority opinion in 10 Downing Street.

With No 10 saying aid to India is continuing and that's it (talk about a duff ear for politics), calm down and relax to this. Enjoy.

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Muhammad. Or so goes a saying popularised by Francis Bacon. It seems Andrew Mitchell, the Development Secretary, has taken this to heart and decided to move his entire Department — DfID — closer to the Foreign Office, MoD and, of course, No 10. After years of relishing its location — both geographically and fu...

The government will not block bonuses due to other RBS executives, after chief executive Stephen Hester waived his near-£1m award.

The elderly care system is "broken" and must be urgently reformed to stop pensioners "losing everything" to pay for help in old age, the Government's chief adviser warns today.

... he wouldn't be a liberal, would he? Nevertheless, ignoring that fundamental rule of the universe, if Miliband was smart, then he'd realise he a tailor-made opportunity to 'detoxify his brand' - as Satan's Representative in No 10 would no doubt put it - simply by throwing scum like this under the bus. Nothing sums up the demented nature of the modern left better than a soi-dissant socialist par...

The refurbishment costs less than two months after she took office in May 1979 was more than £1,700

As the effects of last week's European Council become clear, debate about the rights and wrongs of David Cameron's diplomacy hinge on one question: were his demands ‘reasonable and modestly expressed’, as a source in No 10 put it to me? Everyone knows that there were chronic failures in the run-up to the meeting itself. I laid a few of them out in an earlier post, but, basica...

Downing Street says none of the proposed changes being discussed to the future shape of the European Union would trigger a referendum in the UK.