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Osborne to EU: no dodging a new treaty
The Conservative party’s problems over EU policy are not confined to the backbenches – it has lots of work to do to persuade other EU nations of the need for a new treaty.
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President Barack Obama says he will put a stop to the US intelligence agency’s mass storage of Americans’ phone records, and orders an end to indiscriminate spying on friendly foreign allies.
The Conservative party’s problems over EU policy are not confined to the backbenches – it has lots of work to do to persuade other EU nations of the need for a new treaty.
David Cameron orders a review after papers show that Margaret Thatcher sent an SAS officer to help the Indian army carry out the notorious storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
More than 90 Conservative MPs write to David Cameron urging him to give parliament a national veto over current and future EU laws.
At least 75 peers debate a bill that would allow a referendum on the UK’s membership – but some peers are threatening to stall the legislation.
The sight of a British prime minister calculating ferry numbers, lorry numbers and tonnages to defeat a strike will certainly surprise anybody who took at face value Mrs Thatcher’s claim to be simply a bystander.
Disputes over flags and parades in Northern Ireland proved too great for the country’s politicians who failed to agree a compromise on these and other outstanding issues from the peace process.
Ian Paisley was described as a schizophrenic ready to adopt the IRA’s “Brits out” mantra if he did not get his way on Northern Ireland politics, newly released state papers claim.
Britain’s intelligence agencies were reluctant to highlight concerns over how terror suspects were treated by other countries for fear of damaging international relationships, a report finds.
No English, no benefits, today’s headlines would have us believe. But the truth about the latest crackdown on “benefit tourism” is not that simple.
On his trips to London, Nelson Mandela praised the UK for its help in the struggle. But did the British state really come to his aid during all those years in captivity?
White South Africans once saw Nelson Mandela as the head of a terrorist sect bent on destroying their comfortable lives. Channel 4 News looks at the journey Mandela and his country have taken.
The world’s most revered statesman, who became a symbol of hope and justice after leading South Africa out of the apartheid era, has died at the age of 95. Channel 4 News looks back at his life.
First a cap on payday loans, then a move to plain-paper cigarette packaging and now a cut in energy bills. Are the Conservatives seizing on Labour’s ideas?
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.