David Cameron attempted to brush off an attack from Labour over his closeness to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.

A fresh bout of Labour infighting has broken out over whether Liam Byrne, a Blairite, should remain in charge of the party's policy review.

Peter Hain has stepped down as shadow Welsh secretary.

Inside Westminster

Take a very close look at the Queen's Speech. Its contents will have as much impact on the fate of the Coalition as will the state of the economy. I am not referring to yesterday's Queen's Speech, a ragbag of measures. I refer to the first legislative programme announced soon after the general election, the most radical Queen's Speech in recent history. The proposals announced then are being implemented now or in the coming months. They contain unexploded landmines that could erupt at any time as David Cameron also faces a fragile economy and the revelatory Leveson Inquiry.

As the Labour Party contemplates why it lost the London mayoral election when everything else was going so well, the campaign organisers have insisted it was not for lack of effort by the door-knocking foot soldiers, who squeezed every last vote they could from an indifferent electorate.

Labour leader Ed Miliband should stop trying to court the Blairite wing of the party, mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone said today.

It was not a general election, and voters knew they could give the Coalition a bloody nose

I have a confession to make that will destroy what cred I ever had. I loved the Spice Girls. When my daughters were small, they would sit glued to the box watching the glammy, glitzy airheads. I was gutted when I couldn't come with them to a concert, but I did make it to a Destiny's Child gig.

YouGov poll suggests as many as two in ten Labour supporters are not backing Livingston

It was hard yesterday to find anyone quite sure about the meaning of Tony Blair “re-engaging” in UK politics, especially as he has already begun to do so quietly.

After five years away from Westminster, the former PM is on the comeback trail

Dennis Skinner doesn't deserve the contempt of such cocky whippersnappers