Tony Blair

As former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry, a protester bursts in and accuses him of being a war criminal, while he denies ever agreeing a deal with Rupert Murdoch.

He is in charge of the UK at one of the toughest times in recent history, yet he likes to wind down whenever he can. Is David Cameron’s tendency to “chillax” good for him – and the country?

Ex-Daily Mirror political editor and spin doctor Alastair Campbell returns to the Leveson inquiry to discuss politicians and their relationship with the “putrid” media he now distances himself from.

Andy Coulson attended meetings of the National Security Council as David Cameron’s director of communications when he was not vetted and “may have” had unsupervised access to top secret documents.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.

After Lord Ahmed was accused of offering a £10m “bounty” for the capture of US President Barack Obama, the peer tells Channel 4 News the allegations are a “complete pack of lies”.

With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country’s continued presence in the country.

President Napolitano has asked technocrat Mario Monti to form a new Italian government. Mr Monti said he wanted to work with the president to eliminate his “reservations” in accepting the post.

Labour peer Philip Gould, adviser to former prime minister Tony Blair and “part of the renaissance of the Labour Party”, dies following a battle with cancer.

Education Secretary Michael Gove tells Channel 4 News in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is “a great man”.

The Boundary Commission for England’s recommendations for the redrawing of constituencies have thrown up several surprises. We look at some of the winners and the losers.

Few English MPs will escape changes to their constituency borders in today’s Boundary Commission’s recommendations, writes political consultant Lewis Baston.