HMS Vanguard sits in dock. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Clive Lewis - 18 January 15:17

Spending £30-100bn on a new nuclear weapons system should be unthinkable when frontline forces are enduring dramatic cuts.

David Cameron leaves Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 18 January 12:29

PM says number of Britons at risk at Algerian gas plant has been "significantly reduced" but that operations are not over.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 18 January 9:50

PM says that only "the parties that are going to form the government" should be included if the debates are repeated in 2015.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Douglas Alexander - 17 January 21:14

The shadow foreign secretary says that only Labour can "give voice to the national interest" in an address at Chatham House.

Cameron leaves Number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions.
By George Eaton - 17 January 20:03

Prime Minister will remain in London tomorrow to chair Cobra meetings, rather than delivering long-delayed speech in the Netherlands on Britain's EU membership.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Richard Morris - 17 January 14:59

In 2007, Clegg pledged to double the number of Lib Dem MPs over two general elections - and hasn't gone back on his word since.

Home Secretary Theresa May makes a speech on immigration.
By Sarah Mulley - 17 January 13:03

The Conservatives' net migration target is wrong but the centre-left cannot ignore the question of numbers.

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke performs live on stage. Photograph: Getty Images.
By New Statesman - 17 January 12:33

Radiohead singer says he'd "sue the living shit" out of the PM if he used his music.

Labour leader Ed Miliband. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 17 January 10:06

Labour leader says he would not reverse measure previously denounced by his party as a "dog's breakfast" and a "political gesture".

David Cameron gives a press conference after an EU summit.
By Robert Buckland - 16 January 17:23

Conservative MP Robert Buckland says it is time for the UK to engage with the EU constructively.

Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown at the Cenotaph during Remembrance Sunday.
By Rafael Behr - 16 January 16:26

The tension is between the need to defend Labour’s legacy of public service investment and the impulse to imagine different methods of change.

Workmen manoeuvre a large model of the Conservative Party symbol.
By Ryan Shorthouse and Guy Stagg - 16 January 15:35

Sceptical voters on low and middle incomes need much more reassurance that the party is on their side.

Labour leader Ed Miliband. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 16 January 14:15

The PM refused to say whether he would allow Conservative cabinet ministers to campaign for EU withdrawal during the referendum campaign.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 16 January 12:13

Ahead of the removal of restrictions on immigration from the two newest EU member states on 1 January 2014, UKIP puts the Tories under pressure.

Minister without portfolio Ken Clarke. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 16 January 9:53

If Ken Clarke is free to put the europhile case, eurosceptics will want to be able to argue for withdrawal.

Labour leader Ed Miliband. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Francis Davis - 15 January 16:54

Miliband must move swiftly to advance his promise to break with his party's centralising habits.

David Cameron's former director of strategy Steve Hilton.
By Simon Parker - 15 January 15:12

Ed Miliband must help shape a cross-party agreement on the civil service that turns it into a tool to support social democratic governance in the future.

Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 15 January 13:27

Having denounced "aggressive tax avoidance", Osborne is under pressure to respond to the bank's plan to avoid the 50p rate tax by delaying bonus payments.

Belfast police stand guard with a baton gun and riot shields.
By Kevin Meagher - 15 January 11:11

History shows that the "non-lethal" weapons deployed against civilians are neither accurate nor safe.

Nick Clegg at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 15 January 9:22

Lib Dem leader struggles to explain away election leaflet that called for a "real referendum" on EU membership.

David Cameron leaves Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 14 January 17:22

Downing Street confirms a date for the PM's long-delayed speech on "the future of the EU and the UK's relationship with it".

Conservative chairman Grant Shapps.
By George Eaton - 14 January 16:12

The Conservative chairman borrows Obama's "don't give them the keys back" line. But it's his party that crashed the car again.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 14 January 13:46

Faced with a split party, Cameron could learn from Harold Wilson and suspend collective cabinet responsibility for the referendum campaign.

Children and nurses representing the NHS. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Sunder Katwala - 14 January 11:43

New polling by British Future shows that while attitudes to the NHS have fluctuated, commitment to its founding principles has remained remarkably consistent.

David Cameron speaks during a press conference at the EU headquarters.
By George Eaton - 14 January 10:27

It is odd to speak of an EU referendum as inevitable when few believe the Conservatives will win a majority at the next election.

Labour leader Ed Miliband. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Ed Miliband - 12 January 17:54

Read the Labour leader's first speech of the new year on how "One Nation" Labour will reshape the economy.

Chancellor George Osborne. Photograph: Getty Images.
By George Eaton - 11 January 16:38

Danger of a triple-dip recession as NIESR forecasts that the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the final quarter of 2012.

Conservative MP and skills minister Matthew Hancock at an interview he made.
By George Eaton - 11 January 13:19

Daybreak presenter says the MP, who overslept, was "much more than a minute late".

Education Secretary Michael Gove. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Stephen Twigg - 11 January 9:04

By obsessing over structures, the Education Secretary has lost the drive for school improvement that existed under Labour’s academies programme.

David Cameron during a visit to a London Early Years Foundation nursery.
By Lucy Lee - 10 January 20:35

There is a gulf in the quality of childcare available to parents in prosperous areas and those in deprived areas.

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