Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, made a surprise U-turn on Monday night over his controversial plan to deny defendants on legal aid the right to choose their solicitor.

The huge gains by the UK Independence Party have rattled Tory and Lib Dem grassroots

The Conservatives must give voters “greater certainty” that they will be given a say on Britain's membership of the European Union, Home Secretary Theresa May acknowledged on Saturday.

Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres: "After the storm of a life lived in the heat of political controversy, there is a great calm."

Lib Dem candidate Mike Thornton wins seat but with greatly reduced majority of 1,771

The confidence boost for Clegg will lead to more stability at the top of the Coalition

Inside Westminster: Cameron lacks the authority that an outright win in 2010 would have given him

For most of the twentieth century, it was the centre-left that was split. After this week, the chances of Labour and the Lib Dems working together have risen sharply

Labour tensions over gay marriage have surfaced as MPs attacked the Government’s plans for same-sex weddings and shadow ministers clashed over their tactics on the issue.

58 parliamentarians - including 35 Tory MPs - have put their names to an open letter

In the end Andrew Mitchell simply had too many enemies and too few friends to survive.

Campaigners for gay marriage expressed disappointment today that it was not included in the Queen's Speech.

Ian Hannam joined the special forces when he was 17 as a member of the part-time Territorial unit the Artists Rifles.

Greater love hath no man than this, as Jeremy Thorpe so nearly put it of Harold Macmillan: that he lay down his classmates for his life. The pressure on David Cameron to take the long knives to a few toffs becomes irresistible, and the time to ignite reshuffle fever is upon us.