Trust in politics is low. We will make a start in changing this by being open and transparent, publishing every item of council spending over £500. It's your money; we'll be straight with you. We should be accountable when spending your money. I've seen this work in other authorities. People consider their actions more carefully when they are laid open to wider scrutiny. The v...

Politicians talk constantly about “lifting people out of poverty”, mending our “broken society”, giving people “equality of opportunity” and, more rarely “creating a more equal society”. What none of them seem to be prepared to face is the fact that people are poor principally because they have less money than others; and that when

MPs and Peers ran the Westminster Mile on Wednesday to raise money for Sport Relief.

Thousands of police officers face being axed and replaced by civilian staff to save money, a report for the Home Office has signalled.

MPs and peers put political rivalries aside yesterday to run the Westminster Mile, raising money for Sport Relief.

Gordon Brown has refused to rule out spending more public money on a "giveaway" pre-election Budget later this month.

Of course, Sachs would support absolutely anything that raised more money for development. But he does at least point to the correct question: incidence of the tax It won’t be the banks and bankers (no, no matter what Ritchie says, it won’t be) who carry the costs. It will be all users of financial markets. That is,

A £630 million project to regenerate former mining areas, funded by public money, has no way of knowing how many new jobs have been created, according to a highly critical report by MPs.

MINISTERS have announced a £400 million upgrade to the military communications satellite network to meet demand. The money will allow the Skynet 5D satellite to be completed

The twin imperatives of sound money and European integration are clashing. Ironically, Germany must become less German if the eurozone is to become more so, writes Martin Wolf