PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has sent his "sincere condolences" to the family and friends of three asylum seekers who died in an apparent suicide.

PMQ’s today bolstered my view that David Cameron will outperform Gordon Brown in the three TV debates. Cameron is simply more confident about thinking on his feet than Brown. When Ronnie Campbell and chums started suggesting that the generals who had criticised Brown’s record on defence were doing so because they were Tories, Cameron changed tack and demanded that the Prime Minister di...

Samantha Cameron is to be thrust into the general election campaign as part of the Tory drive to ensure her husband becomes Prime Minister.

Labour publishes A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party today published A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing prosperity with Labour, or...

It was like a volcano going off. At PMQs today Cameron was calmly dissecting the prime minister’s underfunding of the Afghan war when he quoted two former defence chiefs who’d called Brown ‘disingenuous’ and ‘a dissembler’. Then someone shouted, ‘they’re Tories!’ Cameron lost control. Instantly, completely. His temper just went. White in the fa...

Alongside a speech by Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, on the economy, the Labour Party is today publishing A Future Fair for All: Securing the recovery, not putting it at risk. The document sets out the choice that Britain faces between growth and increasing prosperity with Labour, or a decade of austerity, low growth and low employment under the Tories. To read a c...

The prime minister didn't promise "blood, sweat, tears" or "to fight them on the beaches" but try reading this quote from the prime minister's speech this morning in a gravelly Churchillian voice and you'll see what he was up to: "We are weathering the storm; now is no time to turn back. We will hold to our course. And we will complete this mission. We have got through this storm to...

Prime Minister pledges to pull the economy through the ''storm'' of recession as he sets March 24 date for the Budget.

Each week, Prime Minister's Questions begins with a roll of honour - as it will today. The Prime Minister pays tribute to members of our armed forces killed in Afghanistan. The Leader of the Opposition does likewise. So does the...

The Prime Minister has announced a pay freeze for thousands of senior civil servants, NHS managers, judiciary and military top brass under moves aimed at saving £3 billion over the next three years.