As reported on this week's Westminster Hour, the Green Alliance has launched a project called "The Last Parliament" contending that the 2010 Parliament will be the last that might take action adequate to prevent significant climate change. Matthew Taylor suggested...

With 15 polls already published so far in March, it’s time for a mid-month reality check on the state of the parties. Some parts of the media watch the polls with breathless excitement, investing even the smallest fluctuations with a significance well beyond what they can bear: a bad-tempered PMQs, a 24-hour Westminster Village row,

SNP leader Alex Salmond will tell his party's conference a hung parliament at Westminster would be "redolent with opportunity".

ALEX Salmond has insisted the SNP's aim of winning 20 Westminster seats is still the right target, as his party gears up for its last big rally before the general election

BILLY WOLFE fought for Britain in the Second World War before going on to lead the SNP to its greatest electoral success at Westminster.

Labour Councillors have unveiled their Safer Streets pledge which includes the following five key promises: * We will crack down on anti-social behaviour, knife crime and dangerous dogs by closer working with the Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams. * We will use Westminster’s 100 wi-fi CCTV cameras to catch criminals, rather than fine motorists. * We will improve street-lighting and repair dan...

Westminster City Council has spent over £250,000 keeping the Grade II listed Marylebone Library closed for the past three years, according to figures obtained by Labour Councillors. Over the last three years since the Marylebone Road library has been closed, the cost of the rates on the empty building add up to £253,000, as follows: * 2009/10 - £124,000 * 2008/09 - £78,000 ...

The youngest son of a London-Irish tailor, my father, Anthony O'Shea, who has died aged 89, left his Jesuit-run grammar school at 16 to work in the Westminster bank, a career cut short by the outbreak of war in 1939.He was at that time in the Territorial Army – he used to tell us how he went away for a training weekend and did not return for seven years. After a brief spell in the regul...

If two things fuelled the rise of the BNP last year, then they were probably the mainstream parties' reluctance to talk about immigration and a general disillusionment with Westminster politicians in the wake of the expenses scandal.  There are tentative signs that the parties are getting their act together on the first.  And, now, Nick Griffin  may have undermined his own part...

He's political director of the union which has given Labour £11m since 2007. His union pays the salary of one of Gordon Brown's Downing Street staff. It's Westminster group of Labour MPs totals over 160. It is highly efficient at ensuring that its supporters are selected as candidates for Labour safe seats. He is Charlie Whelan. It is Unite - the union at the heart of the Brit...