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Ed side-steps unions to focus on the ‘cost of living crisis’
Ed Miliband side-steps the issue of trade union reform at the Labour conference, but his bigger problem lies in a perception of his party as the “villains” of the economic piece.
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Ed Miliband side-steps the issue of trade union reform at the Labour conference, but his bigger problem lies in a perception of his party as the “villains” of the economic piece.
Europe Editor Matt Frei pops into Angela Merkel’s final campaign rally, to see why the self-deprecating physicist is still popular with the crowds.
The loss of GMB money will not be financially devastating to the Labour party, but there will be a political price to pay for Ed Miliband’s handling of the row over union funding.
The government’s attempts to clean up political lobbying are condemned by charities as the Commons debates the proposed reforms.
The Labour selection row in Falkirk has pushed Len McCluskey into the spotlight. On the day he addresses the Durham Miners’ Gala, we ask if the Unite boss justifies his “Red Len” tag.
Ed Miliband calls for an “historic” shake-up in Labour’s relationship with the trade unions. What is he hoping to achieve and where does the public stand?
Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has claimed an outright victory in Iran’s presidential election, the country’s interior minister announces.
Malaysia’s ruling coalition extends its 56-year rule but insiders suggest Prime Minister Najib Razak may have to step down by the end of the year, after his party’s worst-ever election performance.
Italy heads towards political gridlock after two days of voting in crucial elections, our foreign correspondent Jonathan Rugman reports.
Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, today renew their vows in a new show of unity, two and a half years after the rose garden press conference.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove launch a new group campaigning for gay marriage, threatening a split from party traditionalists in opposition to the proposals.
David Cameron says he supports gay weddings in churches, synagogues and other places of worship in a move which could cause deep division in the Tories.
With Business Secretary Vince Cable telling his party that another hung parliament is likely at the next election, Channel 4 News asks a YouGov pollster if he is right.
I’m told the consensus amongst Tory cabinet ministers, chatting as they went in for their own political cabinet at Tory HQ without their Lib Dem partners, was that Nick Clegg had probably shot himself in the foot with his video.
“That would be the ultimate irony of a saga that contains several ironies already – like appointing more unelected lords so as to reduce the size of the elected Commons.”