Public bodies and private companies will be obliged to stick to deadlines in paying their creditors to avoid high interest rates on their debt, according to a draft deal between the EU institutions on the recast of the Late Payments Directive.

The Today Programme this morning demonstrated the problem with putting out an official statement on your private life: it makes the media feel that they have official sanction to discuss the matter. There were three separate discussions of Hague’s statement on the programme this morning. In a classic case of the BBC trying to both have its cake and eat it, one of the segments spent several m...

Foreign secretary tells of his distress at gay rumours and the trauma or remaining childless

William Hague met Ffion Jenkins when she became his private secretary in 1995 after he was appointed Secretary of State for Wales.

Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks for the first time following speculation about his private life.

David Cameron supports William Hague "100%" following speculation about the foreign secretary's private life, the PM's spokeswoman says.

Scotland's public sector faces the biggest reduction in public spending in generations. Managing 51 per cent of our GDP, private sector firms who trade with them are braci

Private landlords who run "party flats" in Scotland will be issued with Asbos to clamp down on antisocial behaviour caused by visiting stag and hen parties under plans

Private toll roads are not a cost-effective answer to traffic problems, the government is warned by transport campaigners.

Among the most left-field on the shortlist is Nick Gleis, who photographs the pimped up private jets that belong to African dictators and other heads of state. I suspect that most of them don’t belong to African dictators, who are...