Cameron promises to cram yet more peers into the Lords
As David Cameron reveals plans to announce a number of new peers before the summer in line with the coalition agreement, Michael Crick looks at how bloated the House of Lords could become.
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After making big gains in the county council elections, Ukip leader Nigel Farage says: “I don’t think these votes are going away quickly.” So what are the prospects for the “fourth party”?
Nigel Farage celebrates with a pint of bitter after significant gains in the local elections. Is Ukip’s success a mid-term protest or a real change in British politics?
Two years after Prime Minister David Cameron first set out his position on immigration, Channel 4 News asks four newcomers to Britain how life has changed for them.
As David Cameron reveals plans to announce a number of new peers before the summer in line with the coalition agreement, Michael Crick looks at how bloated the House of Lords could become.
The beleaguered English Defence League takes to the streets of Solihull on Saturday. But with its figurehead Tommy Robinson in prison, is Britains far right a spent force?
As talks are held in an attempt to stem violence after three nights of rioting east Belfast MP Naomi Long tells Channel 4 News that flag protests are becoming a vehicle for violence to enter the city.
The economic future is bleak, but the chancellor wants to stick to his deficit reduction plan – so something has to give. Is he planning a VAT hike to 22.5 per cent? A stamp duty rise on luxury homes?
Ukip achieved its highest ever percentage vote in yesterday’s Rotherham by-election. The party’s next ambition is to overtake the Lib Dems and top the 2014 elections for the European parliament.
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.
Who controls policing in the UK will be decided at the ballot boxes on Thursday. But who are the people in the running to be police and crime commissioners?
Police are investigating comments allegedly made on Twitter by BNP leader Nick Griffin about a gay couple at the centre of a landmark legal ruling.
It is as if there is a quantitative disease in government; a quantitative collapse of leadership on visionary projects for the future.
Fears rise of increased borrowings costs after Moody’s downgrades 15 financial institutions including Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC.
A paedophile grooming gang who passed girls as young as 13 around for sex after plying them with drink and drugs are facing jail.
Latest reaction and analysis after a successful night for Labour in the local elections. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson looks set to beat off Ken Livingstone in the battle to be London mayor.