The business dealings of former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman and one of its biggest donors, Lord Ashcroft, are back in the news again. As The Observer reports: Fresh revelations have raised a series of questions about the links between the former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft and a company responsible for luxury projects across a

Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary, is employing a glamorous Oxford graduate who inspired a fight for her affections at the Bullingdon Club.

Today’s papers make clear just how damaging the next phase of this whole Chris Huhne business could be to the Liberal Democrats. The danger is that because this story is a very human drama it cuts through to the public in the way that some minor dispute over policy would not. The Mail, for instance, reveals that Nick Clegg’s wife Miriam called Vicky Pryce as soon as the news broke abou...

EU social policy costs UK business and public sector £8.6bn a year

The inside story of President Obama's "spontaneous" Al Green moment at the Apollo Theater on January 19th. For President Obama, spending days practicing to sing one line of an Al Green song at a campaign event in New York so that it would appear spontaneous, is what passes for doing the peoples business in this White House. Remember this? Of course you do and that was the plan when this "spon...

Norman Lamb, a former lawyer and key adviser to Nick Clegg, has replaced Ed Davey as the employment relations and postal affairs minister. He will be tasked with reducing the burden of employment law on business, among other things, picking up where Mr Davey left off.

Lib Dem minister Ed Davey is named the new energy and climate change secretary following Chris Huhne's resignation, while Norman Lamb takes over his role as business minister.

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna explained why Labour was looking at international lessons of good practice in finance.

According to the No. 10 website, Ed Davey MP will replace Chris Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with Norman Lamb to replace Davey in his role at the Department for Business. Completing the changes, Jenny Willott becomes an Assisstant Government Whip, and Jo Swinson replaces Norman Lamb as Nick Clegg’s

Extra money raised from settling disputes with big companies is unlikely to pacify Revenue critics