Last quango in quad-land?
Tonight, as I write, the quad is meeting to try to sign off on the coalition’s last budget.
Tonight, as I write, the quad is meeting to try to sign off on the coalition’s last budget.
“All-out war” on mediocre schools; apparent threats to “weaponise” the NHS and the “battle” to win voters. A distraction from the real wars that dog the planet?
Some Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are especially vulnerable to electoral fraud – that is the conclusion of research published today by the Electoral Commission.
No one knows how to delay an urgent inquiry into serious misjudgments, mistakes, and misdoings, than the British ‘system’.
They spend their lives dealing, trading, monitoring and watching. Yet last week, when the Swiss Central Bank detached the Swissie from tracking the Euro, it turns out they knew nothing.
Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that raising the threat level for the Jewish community would mean stepping up police patrols.
Just 111 days to go. Media commentators love giving us the countdown to polling day on 7 May. But the reality is voting in the 2015 general election will really start a lot of earlier than that.
Ofcom says Ukip could be classed as a “major party” ahead of the general election – but the Greens will miss out. Is that fair?
For the first time in nearly a decade and a half we are not formally at war – but exactly how many “security” or “military” people we have left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan is an imprecise matter.
As the Tories release their election campaign poster, FactCheck goes behind the figures to see whether they add up, and what they’re not telling us.
Ukip won hundreds of seats in the local elections, but that may not mean the party will cruise into Westminster in 2015.
We were used to the north-south fracture line in English election results. Yesterday’s local elections confirmed it’s even more fractured than that.
Less than a year ago, some report that Ed Miliband was ready to press the button and sign up to an in/out referendum. He was pulled back by Douglas Alexander.
Include UKIP in televised debates? No thanks, David Cameron says, as Michael Crick reports.
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.