More politicians could come under police investigation over fraudulent expenses, the head of Scotland Yard said today.

Twittering is a new political weapon. Once, if you did not like some aspect of the BBC, you would say so openly. Norman Tebbit attacked it for bias. So did Alastair Campbell. Last week Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, twittered his disapproval of the Today programme's allegedly soft interviews of leading Tories. He described Evan Davis's questioning of Michael Gove as "disgracefully feeble," and his grilling of George Osborne as "wholly feeble and biased".

East of England Minister Barbara Follett has announced she will be standing down at the next general election.

A top business executive has blamed the massive volume of work-related emails, including on smartphones, for the stress on workers today.

The Football Association is bemused at a bizarre and heavy-handed attack on it by sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe whose threats to withdraw £25m of government funding would have a profound effect on grassroots football.

The Cabinet has agreed that a senior minister should face Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, on BBC1's Question Time.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson today "gave no ground" in the face of calls not to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a cross-party trio of senior MPs said.

Outlook They were queuing up to take pot shots at Lord Turner yesterday after the FSA boss dared to float the idea that a new tax on bank transactions might be the way to tackle excessive City bonuses. "Crackers" was the verdict of Mayor of London Boris Johnson, while even bank-bashing Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg wasn't too impressed.

Output per American worker rose at its fastest pace in six years in the second quarter as businesses wrung more from shrinking workforces.