BBc Parliament on what influence the Queen has over PMs

The Record Review's Daniel Brittain spoke to senior Conservative whip Mark Francois MP about his Royal Household duties.

Standard Chartered, UK government and special fund-raising events help direct donations from FT readers and supporters of Sightsavers to reach multi-million pound mark

The number of people without a job increased at the end of last year, highlighting a deteriorating situation in the eurozone, according to figures released by Eurostat yesterday (31 January). More »

The 64% rise to 457,000 reflects extra funding for the coalition’s push to expand the training programmes and the closure of other schemes

Britain has an excellent track record in science and research, with many great figures in natural sciences, humanities, computing, computing, engineering and mathematics over the years. We continue to outperform other countries in our achievements in these fields, in terms of outputs per person and per pound. We publish 13.8% of the world’s most cited

Sadiq Khan MP, Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting ahead of today’s announcement by the Government on a strategy for victims, said:

The Bank of England's emergency programme of printing money to support the economy has helped push pension incomes to record lows, its own figures showed yesterday.

Lib Dem chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander was grilled by BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman on Wednesday night about the UK’s negative growth figures — here’s what Danny had to say about the Coalition’s economic strategy: (Available on the BBC website here.) * Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and also writes

Politicians should be banned from briefing journalists off the record, Tom Watson, the Labour MP has claimed.