A police officer under investigation over claims he witnessed a row in Downing Street involving a Cabinet minister "wasn't there at the time", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has said.

Scotland Yard was condemned last night for arresting a police officer on suspicion of leaking details of Andrew Mitchell's angry outburst when he was stopped from using Downing Street's main gates.

The former Tory chief whip Andrew Mitchell hit back today in the row over his clash with police officers at Downing Street’s gates, insisting the official police record of the altercation was false.

Boris Johnson intensified the pressure on David Cameron today by calling for a vote on Britain’s place in Europe before the next general election.

Former mandarins said to be behind attack on reforms to selection of Permanent Secretaries

Serbia's Under-21s must play a game behind closed doors while Steven Caulker and Thomas Ince are suspended

David Cameron and the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt have been publicly rebuked by the Government's own statistics watchdog for claiming that spending on the NHS has risen under the Conservatives.

Government claims to have made real-terms increases in NHS spending for two years are misleading and should be withdrawn, a watchdog told Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Labour says it will draft Bill that could force Government’s hand on statutory underpinning

David Cameron must back Lord Justice Leveson's proposal for a new law to regulate the press by Christmas, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.

Exclusive interview: Father of missing girl criticises Cameron’s rejection of proposal for legal underpinning

When politicians face an impossible dilemma, they set up commissions and await reports. So often, it is a way of procrastinating until a day when passions have subsided and difficult decisions can be avoided.

News International (NI) has been told to pay the substantial legal fees of the former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson.

David Cameron promised to seek cross-party agreement on newspaper regulation today as advance copies of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press standards were delivered to Downing Street.