Baroness Warsi faced calls last night to stand down as the Conservative Party co-chairman following allegations she claimed House of Lords expenses while staying rent-free at a friend's house.

Tube passengers endured further travel misery today, with severe delays on three Underground lines.

Baroness Warsi faced calls last night to stand down as the Conservative Party co-chairman following allegations she claimed expenses while staying rent-free at a friend's house.

Relations between senior civil servants and Downing Street are at an all-time low, with both sides engaged in a bitter blame game.

Strategy chief's 'Bungalow Bob' jibe at top mandarin in clash over reforms

The parents of murdered American teenager Trayvon Martin have called on British people to stop racially profiling each other during an emotionally charged visit to London in which they met with Stephen Lawrence's mother Doreen.

As the biggest national survey begins on Channel 4 tomorrow, Sarah Morrison separates reality from myth

David Cameron's strategy to prevent an independent probe into his Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was last night dramatically undermined by the Leveson Inquiry.

The minicab firm run by Conservative donor John Griffin is to lose a lucrative contract with the Government, it emerged yesterday, hours after the company was banned from encouraging its drivers to illegally use bus lanes.

Wolverhampton Wanderers' owner, Steve Morgan, who also controls the housebuilder Redrow, took an £80m punt on the London property market yesterday.

Labour surges to biggest poll lead since election while new Coalition split on 'green deal' emerges

More than a third of Britain's most senior civil servants have left their jobs since the Coalition government took power, new figures have shown.

Downing Street and senior civil servants have approved a pay packet in excess of £200,000 for the next chief executive of High Speed Two, the heavily criticised £32bn London to Birmingham rail link proposal.

It is known as the "silly season": the month when politicians and civil servants go away for their holidays and shark sightings off the coast of Cornwall take on a national significance.