David Cameron at Ypres: very well, alone
David Cameron is facing isolation in the European Union as he clashes with fellow leaders at a two-day summit to choose a new president for the European Commission.
David Cameron says the European Council’s decision to appoint Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission is a “bad day for Europe”, adding: “You have to lose a battle to win a war.”
In one part of Europe people are literally dying to join the European Union club, in another they have never been entirely sure how much they want it.
David Cameron is facing isolation in the European Union as he clashes with fellow leaders at a two-day summit to choose a new president for the European Commission.
It has been called the Trial of the Century and cost millions of pounds. But the phone hacking trial also raises serious questions about our political system.
David Cameron faces questions about hiring Andy Coulson, after his former spin doctor is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while editor of News of the World.
There was no shortage of people advising David Cameron to drop Andy Coulson after he won the 2010 election. But Coulson followed the Tory leader into No 10.
John Prescott, phone-hacked by the News of the World and Ian Kirby, the paper’s former political editor debate whether David Cameron vetted Andy Coulson before making him No 10 comms chief.
If EU leaders back Jean-Claude Juncker for the post of European Commission president it would be “flicking two fingers” at voters across the continent, Iain Duncan Smith says.
David Cameron tells MPs it is wrong to think that violence in Iraq is “nothing to do with us” because Islamist militants are “planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom”.
Sanya-Jeet Thandi, 21, who quit Ukip claiming it had “descended into a form of racist populism” visits Gravesend in Kent to find out how she ended up out of step with her former party.
Strong jobs growth continues as UK unemployment rate falls – but wage data show prices continue to rise much faster than pay packets.
David Cameron says inequality and poverty have improved on his watch. So is the government on target to eradicate child poverty?
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
Nine months of relentless focus-grouping have culminated in this slogan: “no thanks.” Even the font has been road-tested with voters – a bubbly lettering normally seen promoting baby-food.
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?