You don't have to be a genius to see where this one is heading: a summer silly season of media and internet campaigning ends in a Commons vote on capital punishment, which, after the Liberal...

There are suggestions at Westminster that David Cameron's premiership is threatened by the Murdoch-Met scandal. But as is often the case, this conventional wisdom is misguided. Unless a smoking gun...

One of the most important hearings in Parliament’s history was overshadowed tonight by a protester with a plastic plate full of shaving foam. Shouting “you are a greedy billionaire,” a young...

The culture committee is likely to focus on phone hacking when it interviews the Murdochs at 14.30 today. But the symbolism of these hearings, for which people are queuing round the block here at...

"The world has changed," Ed Miliband told David Cameron today. And he was right. Never before in Westminster has Rupert Murdoch's name been tarnished so freely by politicians. Since Margaret...

David Cameron was exposed as misunderstanding a crucial government policy today, after Ed Miliband echoed a complaint by Macmillan cancer research that 7000 cancer patients would lose up to £94 per...

At Prime Minister’s Questions just now, Ed Miliband put David Cameron on the spot over reports in today’s papers that the Prime Minister has ordered a U-turn on shortening certain sentences....

Ken Clarke’s bungling defence of the government’s policy of halving rape sentences in the event of early admissions of guilt on Radio 5 Live this morning was rightly controversial, and ushers in...

David Cameron and Ed Miliband clashed in a strangely subdued pre-election round of prime minister’s questions yesterday, hours before the polls opened for the first major electoral test since the...

Sayeeda Warsi, the Conservative party chair who recently warned that the alternative vote could lead to politicians “pandering to extremism,” appears to have appealed to BNP voters herself when...