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Tory options limited after Eastleigh
The atmosphere among Conservative MPs after Eastleigh is not as febrile as you might expect. But a disappointing budget and poor local election results in May could darken the mood.
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio is chosen as Latin America’s first pontiff and will be known as Pope Francis I.
Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of former MP Chris Huhne, faces jail after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice for taking his speeding points. She claims senior Lib Dems knew of the scandal.
A week after resigning amid allegations by four men Britain’s most senior catholic Cardinal O’Brien drops his denials and admits sexual misconduct.
As the Catholic church copes with the aftermath of another sex scandal – this time involving Cardinal O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric – the celibacy of priests is back up for debate.
The atmosphere among Conservative MPs after Eastleigh is not as febrile as you might expect. But a disappointing budget and poor local election results in May could darken the mood.
Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric resigns, hours after the Vatican announces plans to investigate claims of inappropriate behaviour.
Three priests and a former priest report the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.
A call for priests to be allowed to wed by the UK’s most senior Roman Catholic will “raise some eyebrows” in the Vatican in the run-up to the election of the next Pope.
Actor Richard Briers, known to millions for his enduring role in TV sitcom The Good Life, has died at the age of 79, his agent announces.
As David Cameron stands up to the EU on its budget plans, he tells his colleagues that he didn’t ‘handbag’ his colleagues like Mrs Thatcher…and has no plans to get one.
With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, eyes will now turn to who his successor might be – but who are the runners and riders?
I’ve updated my book Sandstorm with an epilogue, taking into account the killing of the US ambassador and other events in Libya. I also write on Mali, showing the links between events in the two countries.
Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of disgraced former MP Chris Huhne, tells a court she found it “repugnant” to take speeding points for him – but did it anyway because of the pressure he put her under.
Gary Gibbon’s been gauging the mood in the corridors of power the morning after the night before, when MPs voted in favour of gay marriage.
Chris Huhne’s ex-wife Vicky Pryce told the press she had taken his speeding points, in a bid to get revenge after he left her for another woman, a court heard today.