The Coalition is fraught with tension and is unlikely to last beyond 2013, argues Iain Martin.

Move comes as officials and ministers start to pay increasing attention to the coalition’s plans to support the country’s base of postgraduates

Shift to training and advisory role to start in middle of next year and be complete by the end of 2013, says defence secretary

Regulators must ask what sort of banking sector Italy needs. It’s time to start the next round of smaller bank consolidation

The new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has called for a complete overhaul of the organisation.

BERKELEY – Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British prime minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930’s, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the start of the Great Depression, the British economy was rapidly returning to

Start with taxing all incomes at the same rate – a worker on an average £26,000 is taxed £5,981, but someone earning the same in dividends pays zero. Those on the 50% tax band only pay 36% on their dividends. Bleedin’ ‘ell Polly! Don’t you know that (in effect) basic rate income tax is collected

Officials start sifting through responses to plans for an opt-out consent organ donation system in Wales as consultation ends, with a report on the findings due next month.

Responding to today's announcement that university applications have declined Paul Blomfield, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, says that this could be the start of a very worrying trend. Mr Blomfield is a member of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee and Secretary of the All Party Parliament Group on Higher Education. Paul Blomfield MP said: "Today's announcem...

India, the world's fourth largest oil consumer has informed the US and Europe that it will not participate in the embargo on Iranian oil scheduled to start - if it starts - this summer. "It is not possible for India to take any decision to reduce the imports from Iran drastically, because among the countries which can provide the requirement of the emerging economies, Iran is an important cou...