Minister says hospitals must 'get a grip' over invasion of privacy just hours after women give birth

The number of mothers who are their household's main breadwinner has soared by over 80 per cent in the last 15 years

A government minister with responsibility for fracking suggested in a private meeting that the innovative gas drilling process could cause houses' walls to shake, it is reported.

Youth charity's global celebrations marred as Home Office refuses to allow delegates entry

Prime Minister calls plan a 'boost direct to the pockets of hard-working families'

Ian Austin, a former aide to Gordon Brown, posted tweet after the Conservatives poached Barack Obama's campaign chief, Jim Messina, for the 2015 battle

David Cameron's Conservative Party has failed to throw off the label of being the "nasty party", has shown itself to be "racist" and will do or say anything to bolster its poll ratings, according to a leading black Tory adviser and former Thatcher speechwriter, Derek Laud.

There is an art to heckling, but a good put-down of a heckle is a work of split-second genius. And, given that politics is a branch of stand-up comedy, some of the best practitioners of both have been elected representatives. Harold Wilson might not have been a great PM, but was a master of the improvised one-liner and thus features three times in this list.

Former deputy lord mayor charged with 'grossly offensive communication'

Wales had been a high-profile celebrity adviser to the Prime Minister

Government department faces investigation into ‘racial profiling’ of stop-and-search as Equality and Human Rights Commission demands explanation for the random operations

The political journalist takes his one-man show Rock N Roll Politics to the Fringe

Liberal Democrat ministers also want to give life peers, who are eligible to sit in the Lords until they die, the opportunity to retire

The planning minister has lost powers over wind farm policy because his brother works for a major turbine manufacturer, it has been disclosed.

Major accident and emergency departments have failed to meet waiting-time targets for two weeks running, the latest figures suggest.