The government has supported a Conservative move to ensure that general election voting takes place on polling night and not on the following day.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown battles Labour backbenchers and Conservative "cynicism" in an attempt to replace the current first-past-the-post electoral voting system, writes Felicity Spector.
As the British death toll in Afghanistan hits 256, the defence secretary assures MPs that operational budgets are sufficient and that coalition ties are strengthening the allied position.
The former foreign secretary Jack Straw denies that he ignored advice about the legality of the Iraq war, insisting to the Iraq inquiry that he gave it his serious attention.
