Senior Tory MPs admit that he has been seriously weakened by Downing Street outburst

Facebook opened an engineering office in the UK today - the first of its type outside the United States.

The Conservatives are in discussions with the man who ran Boris Johnson’s successful Mayoral election campaigns to lead the party’s fight to retain power at the next election.

The Government will defy "grief and hassle" from its own backbenchers and fast-track plans for a new high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham, the Transport Secretary has told i.

Outlook Justin King knows a thing or two about employee share ownership. Some 40,000 of his colleagues have shares in Sainsbury's, and 11,000 of them picked up payouts totalling £26.5m last year through the supermarket group's share save scheme.

Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, on a collision course with his Tory colleagues

The Mayor of London was careful to pour praise on the Prime Minister for the 'fantastic job' he was doing

David Cameron denied today that he envies Boris Johnson's “rock star status” after the London Mayor was mobbed on his arrival at the Conservative conference in Birmingham.

Britain will seek to open up its potential reserves of the emerging but controversial fuel, shale gas, with a "generous new tax regime", the Chancellor has revealed, in a promise which has dismayed environmentalists.

Our diarist at the Conservative Party conference notes that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be in need of a new speechwriter

Inflation busting train fare rises will continue every year until 2019, a leading rail union warned today.

The Chancellor was praised by Tory colleagues for his conference speech, but was angrily attacked by unions representing millions of workers in private firms and the public sector.

Seven of the world's biggest energy companies have written to the Government threatening to withdraw hundreds of millions of pounds of investment – with the potential loss of "tens of thousands of new jobs" – because of a lack of commitment to carbon reduction.

Survey also found that one in five GPs had at least one disabled patient who had thought about suicide because of the test