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Foreign Office drops references to its campaign to abolish death penalty
The UK Foreign Office has revised its global human rights priorities, dropping any explicit reference to its campaign to abolish the death penalty. The recalibration of the promotion of civil liberties...
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Public sector workers to lose right to have union fees deducted from wages
Up to 3.8 million public sector workers will lose the right to have their trade union subscriptions automatically deducted from their pay cheques after the government announced plans to end the...
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Yvette Cooper calls for protest-free buffers around abortion clinics
Labour leadership hopeful Yvette Cooper has called for protest-free buffer zones to be established around abortion clinics to stop women facing intimidation and harassment by anti-abortion protesters....
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Choose anyone but Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader, says Alastair Campbell
Labour could be finished if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former chief spin doctor, has said. In a lengthy blogpost, the former Downing Street head of...
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Michelle Mone of Ultimo lingerie made Cameron’s entrepreneurship tsar
David Cameron has appointed the founder of the lingerie brand Ultimo as the government’s new entrepreneurship tsar for areas of high unemployment. Michelle Mone – tipped to be on the list of new peers,...
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Whitehall in denial over extent of UK election fraud, says Eric Pickles
Whitehall is in denial about the extent of electoral fraud and rotten boroughs in Britain, says Sir Eric Pickles, the government’s anti-corruption tsar, as he launches an investigation into the voting...
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Louise Mensch takes swipe at Corbyn campaign – and hits herself
The former Tory MP Louise Mensch came unstuck on Friday night when a series of apparently antisemitic suggested Twitter searches that she said were indicative of abuse from Jeremy Corbyn supporters...
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‘A disgrace’: BBC condemned by Alex Salmond for referendum coverage
Alex Salmond has described the BBC’s coverage of the Scottish independence referendum as a disgrace, as he hit back at outgoing political editor Nick Robinson’s attack on “Putin-like” protests against...
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Labour should be ready to tax rich more, says Andy Burnham
Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has said that Labour should be prepared to raise taxes on the rich to pay off the deficit, arguing that for too long the party had been frightened of using the...
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Government’s peers list publication date prompts allegation of burying bad news
The government has been accused of trying to bury bad news after it emerged it would publish the long-awaited dissolution honours list on the same day that fresh immigration figures and data on deaths...
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EU referendum: out campaigners welcome Cameron’s reworded question
Anti-EU campaigners have received a boost after David Cameron accepted a recommendation by the Electoral Commission to change the wording of the referendum question. Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader,...
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Deadline arrives for ministers’ plans to cut spending by up to 40%
George Osborne is to be given proposals from cabinet ministers on Friday about how they plan to cut their departmental budgets by 25% or 40%, marking the start of negotiations about how the government...
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