. . . Of the three party conferences, the Conservatives’ provided the most fodder for that inevitable litmus test of a political story: splits. This year, they were primarily on the nature and...

There was a telling moment in the press section of the audience for Nick Clegg’s question and answer session with delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham on Monday afternoon. Clegg had...

Who was the one MP to attack the record of the police unequivocally during last week's debates? "From the bungled arrest of the ricin plotters to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the...

I've lost count of the number of column inches outlining a new low in relations between David Cameron and his long-time rival Boris Johnson. Every few months, Johnson says or writes something at odds...

I tried to buy the Daily Mail this morning, because a friend had written something about the classes he runs in Peckham to encourage black kids to aim higher at school. I could not find one in the...

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...