The phrase “Latte-sipping liberal elite” may have recently arrived on British soil, but the picture it paints is straight out of the American political playbook. Having moved to the US last...

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...

Upon election in 2010, the coalition cut public sector spending on consultancy by 40 per cent—from £2.5bn to £1.5bn. Yet this has been offset by a 35 per cent rise in consultancy revenues from...

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...

In David Cameron’s speech on immigration in April, he said that “what matters most is not who comes into the country, but who stays.” “It cannot be right”, he went on, “that people coming...

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....

Less that 48 hours after David Cameron’s attempt to revive his flagship idea with a speech in Milton Keynes last week, Lord Nat Wei–his Big Society tsar–resigned (ironically amidst rumours that...