Toss of a coin decides who leads the Police Federation
Officials joked earlier this week that if votes were tied for the new Police Federation leader, they would decide on the toss of a coin. But it was no joke.
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Taxpayers will foot the bill after a tribunal finds flaws in the government’s cancellation of a contract for technology to count people in and out of the country.
The former high court judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss will head a non-statutory inquiry into how institutions handled historic complaints of child sex abuse.
Michael Gove warns that all schools could now face “no-notice” inspections – but the head of Ofsted says the education secretary blocked their introduction two years ago.
Requiring schools to “promote British values” and introducing no-notice inspections, are just two of the measures Michael Gove wants to introduce to tackle extremism in schools.
Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to the prime minister after his row with Theresa May over the “Trojan horse” school claims, despite earlier saying it was not damaging to the government.
Officials joked earlier this week that if votes were tied for the new Police Federation leader, they would decide on the toss of a coin. But it was no joke.
David Cameron pledges to “take more steps” to speed up the deportation of people who pose a threat to Britain following the US conviction of Abu Hamza on terror charges.
As the PSNI is granted more time to question the Sinn Fein leader about Jean McConville’s murder, Martin McGuinness says the party will “reflect” on its support for the service if Adams is charged.
There are few MPs who can claim to have benefited from the expenses scandal but the new Culture Secretary Sajid Javid is perhaps one of them.
A new criminal offence of police corruption will be created following “profoundly shocking” revelations about Scotland Yard’s investigation of Stephen Lawrence’s murder, the home secretary says.
Northern Ireland’s first minister Peter Robinson says he will not quit after David Cameron announced an inquiry into letters of assurance given to republican terror suspects.
Peter Robinson, first minister of Northern Ireland, threatens to resign unless there is a judicial review into the collapse of a trial of a suspected IRA bomber.
A senior detective who led one of the country’s biggest ever police corruption inquiries said he was “completely flabbergasted” with the the decision to abandon the trial of eight officers in 2011.
An attempt to make it easier to deport foreign-born criminals has failed in parliament. But the MP behind the proposal draws support from both sides of the house.
Police powers to stop and search have long been controversial. But given the 20 per cent cuts to police budgets, their effectiveness must now be justified on economic grounds too.