The Telegraph reports on its front-page that "a Cabinet minister is ready to take legal action to halt a series of increasingly lurid but baseless rumours sweeping Westminster over his sexuality ... Friends of the minister have warned that he will not hesitate to take “action” should unfounded allegations that he is homosexual, which are circulating on the internet, appear in mainstrea...

There is a flurry of legal action in the wake of the Daily Telegraph's publication of MPs' expenses.

It comes as no surprise that Westminster journalists have faithfully repeated whatever gets published on Guido Fawkes, but there’s a few odd things about Nadine Dorries’ so-called legal action against Derek Draper and Damian McBride. For a start, here’s a statement by Draper to the Telegraph: I have not received a writ just a preliminary letter but

The MP for Leicester East has announced he's taking legal action over stories printed in the Daily Mail recently. They regard a letter he reportedly wrote to the High Court about a case involving lawyer Shahrokh Mireskandari. Vaz said: "The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has considered all the allegations published in the Daily Mail, which were originally published in September 2008. "H...

Telegraph Will this re-ignite the anger? After a period when the Telegraph’s daily revelations about MPs expenses were starting to get a bit routine the paper has turned once again to the detailed affairs of the cabinet - folk you would think would have the political skills to know better. Thus the main lead in the Telegraph

Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2008: “Recession pulls hemlines down“. Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2009: “Hemlines rise during economic downturns”. But perhaps it is neither up nor down? Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009: “the relationship between fashion and the economy is often more subtly complex than that”. Never let it be said the Daily Telegraph doesn’t cov...

In his letter to the Daily Telegraph yesterday, Peter Kilfoyle described David Miliband as a political lightweight. It provoked a reader to email and point out the comparison between Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet of 1988 and the current Cabinet. Put aside your own partisan views and ask yourself how many of today's Cabinet would outrank those in the Cabinet of twenty years ago. Prime Minis...

I'm tempted to use a phrase which Boris used yesterday. As I read this press release my jaw dropped... Telegraph Media Group announces the appointment of Benedict Brogan as Assistant Editor and Chief Political Commentator for The Daily Telegraph. Benedict will be writing a weekly column as well as blogging on the workings of Westminster. Benedict joins from the Daily Mail where he has been Po...

Two MPs are considering legal action after fresh details of expenses claims are published in the Daily Telegraph.

Divorced parents could get a legal right to see their children, under plans being drawn up by ministers, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.