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Love this story about Ken Clarke being 'close' to reaching a deal with Europe over UK courts' ability to deport criminals. This...

You've got to respect an army which can sweep across Libya and overthrow a dictator while only ever wearing flip flops.  photo Daily ...

By far the best thing to come from the recent unrest in London has been the following quote from the Iranian Government: Iran called for Lo...

Today we saw the first clash at Treasury Questions between George Osborne and Ed Balls. The format of these questions always meant that this...

Craig Oliver has a lot of work to do in his new role as the Tories' communications chief. Despite having ideas which could genuinely cha...

Well, today's session was certainly different: It was the most civilised PMQs I have ever seen. If I was being cruel, I might say that E...

This week Ireland had a very successful bond auction. The fact that there were €44.5bn worth of offers for €5bn worth of bonds suggests that...

This week was dominated by figures released on Tuesday which showed that the UK economy had shrunk by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2010. Mo...

For the past few weeks the Chinese Government has, to an extent, had the Americans on the back foot following revelations about its new stea...

My prediction that the economic figures released yesterday would dominate PMQs was borne out as Ed Miliband made the UK's 0.5% contract...

One of the most short-sighted things about Labour's filibustering in the Lords is the long-term damage that it could do to the current s...

This is not going to be a long post. In fact I wrote that sentence just to beef it up a bit. Because PMQs tomorrow is only going to be about...

Just a quick post to highlight a few statistics from this weekend's YouGov poll . First up, we have the results of a question asking how...

This week will certainly be remembered for the two dramatic resignations that came on Thursday and Friday. Alan Johnson's decision to re...

I have long argued that Labour could make life a lot harder for the Tories if they put Ed Balls or Yvette Cooper in the Shadow Chancellor...

Bit of an odd session today, with a six-question break in the middle of Ed Miliband's questions to the PM. Even odder, however, was the ...

Daft. That's the word that comes to mind when you look at the letter Tom Baldwin, Ed Miliband's new spinner, sent to pretty much ev...

As exciting as by-elections are, this one didn’t really tell us anything new. Labour has been steadily climbing in the polls from around 30...

Westminster politics got underway again this week and provided us with plenty of action to kick-off 2011. The week’s most amusing story was ...