Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, spoke of being “cut off” by the Whitehall machine when she took maternity leave for the second time as a minister.

Chancellor announces sweeping cuts to benefits bill

The cost of policing the Bilderberg conference – a meeting of politicians, academics and business leaders – in Hertfordshire last week was more than £1m, the Home Office has revealed.

Result puts the Tories on their lowest-ever rating for ComRes

Shadow chancellor sets challenge to George Osborne, who is due to announce a cap on the welfare bill this month

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne today admitted that Labour did not build enough homes when it was in power.

Comments come after Labour said it would not seek reverse coalition's child benefit cuts

As MPs gathered after the half-term break, you could hear the question whizzing around the building: “Do you know who they are?” The reference was to a mystery story festooned across the front of the Mail on Sunday about an extramarital affair between two unnamed famous people.

Labour would stick within the Coalition’s limits on day-to-day spending if it wins power in 2015 but would plough billions of pounds more into housebuilding and road and rail projects.

John Baron can seem like a Mafia operative offering you the sort of protection that it would be unwise to refuse

Jittery party demands more detail on economic policy as poll lead narrows

Online petition calls on the Work and Pensions Secretary - who currently takes home £1,581 a week after tax - to prove it

Ed Balls contrasts new measures with 'bedroom tax' saying claiming the Government will help people buy spare homes