Labour now faces a terrible choice between Gordon Brown's disintegrating leadership or the chaos of regicide Another engine breaks away from Gordon Brown's fuselage, and the damage done looks set to bring him crashing out of the sky. Even if he can judder on, the injury done will diminish him further. Which other engines may now break away too? Those who would bring him down say the prim...

Asked whether the Prime Minister thought that today was one of the blackest days for Parliament, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Prime Minister had been expressing his general views on this subject and he was sure the Prime Minister would say more about it himself during the course of his visit today. Asked if the Prime Minister had had any contact with Ellio...

Yesterday as half the country struggled with snow drifts, blocked roads and icy pavements, and as the other half awaited plunging temperatures and a snow storm, Parliament devoted prime time to global warming. I looked in vain at the Order Paper to see how I could raise the state

Today I am writing an open letter to the Prime Minister. Dear Prime Minister, The Scottish Parliament will meet to debate the decision of the Scottish Justice Minister over the Lockerbie bomber. When you first took the highest political office in the UK you stated that you

We should pillory those who deserve it, but an enfeebled Parliament cringeing before the mob will not serve Britain well The prime minister has denounced Parliament as "useless" and declared that "it must be modernised". He will shortly bring forward a "popular initiative" to change the constitution which would see the number of MPs slashed to 100 and himself gaining greater power. That is the Sil...

In 1979 the 351st early day motion of the 1978-79 sitting of Parliament was tabled by the then leader of the opposition Margaret Thatcher calling on a motion of no confidence in the then Prime Minister James Callaghan. When a successful motion of no confidence is tabled, one of two things must happen, either the Prime Minister resigns or the Prime Minister dissolves Parliament and calls for a Gene...

The withdrawal of Green party will force Brian Cowen, prime minister, to dissolve parliament and bring forward the date of the general election, which had been set for March 11

There's a quite staggeringly inept, patronising and above all obsequious interview with the Prime Minister in this week's New Statesman. It deserves an award for its vacuity. Imagine being given hours with the Prime Minister and only coming up with this. I'd never write a public word again. I imagine the only reason the editor

VICTORY for Barack Obama in the US presidential election could bring forward the prospect of a black British prime minister by decades, it was suggested yesterday.

As a result of the formation of the coalition Government, a number of responsibilities will be transferred from the Secretary of State for Justice to the Deputy Prime Minister. Nick Clegg has already been given special responsibility for political and constitutional reform; now Prime Minister David Cameron has listed the powers which will help Clegg bring