Coalition

Advertising has traditionally helped politicians to cement their ideas and given campaigns a clear direction. But what role will it play in the 2015 general election?

In his first public appearance since last week’s elections, Deputy PM Nick Clegg announces that young people without a job are to be given tailored support from a “work coach”.

You could be forgiven for thinking Ukip won the council elections. It didn’t, but a strong showing from Nigel Farage’s party has sent shockwaves through the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats.

Michael Gove is an “ideologically obsessed zealot” who pushed through £400m of cuts to funding for extra school places to help plug a financial black hole in the free schools project, it is claimed.

The general election is exactly a year away and predicting a winner has never been harder. Channel 4 News looks at three banana skins that could change everything.

The UK economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first three months of 2014, with output now on the verge of reaching levels last seen before the financial crisis began six years ago.

After years in the doldrums, Britain appears to be in the midst of sustainable growth. But it’s not good news all round.

The government says Britain’s recovery is on track as official figures show average pay rises outstripping inflation for the first time in four years and unemployment continuing to fall.

Inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years – good for households who have seen their pay eroded by rising prices, but the better news is the squeeze on earnings may be over.

Chancellor George Osborne is heralding Britain’s economic recovery. But can you feel it? Latest analysis and video in our budget 2014 live blog.

A new garden city is to be built in Ebsfleet in the Thames estuary, and the government’s help to buy scheme is to be extended until the end of the decade, Chancellor George Osborne announces.

Do criticisms of the government’s welfare reforms by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the country’s highest-ranking Catholic, represent a shift in the church’s position?

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles says the government “made a mistake” and should have dredged the flood-hit Somerset Levels.