Coalition planning reforms which will be voted on tonight are a “recipe for community disharmony”, a Conservative MP leading a rebellion against the changes warned today.

Think-tank warns of 'a tidal wave of cuts that makes the 1980s look like a day at the beach'

Controversial plans to force millions of low income families to pay more in council tax from April are to be tested in the courts, it emerged today.

These units do a tremendously important job - let's not forget that

Young voters have been consistently let down by mainstream political parties. Has the Labour leader done enough to win them round?

Eight Conservative-led town halls are to join forces to campaign against cuts to council tax benefit.

Parents, nurses and MPs joined together today to take part in a demonstration against the ending of children's heart surgery at a hospital.

Some of England's largest cities will gain greater powers over their economies and transport under a series of deals with the Government announced today.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, faced anger last night after he claimed members of ethnic minorities who could not speak English “like a native” could become a sub-class “stuck in a ghetto”.

Political recognition

I'm not entirely sad to say that Piers Morgan's problems haven't gone away just yet. And nor, I imagine, have those of the once-married Heather Mills and Paul McCartney. In 2006, Morgan wrote of having heard a touching voicemail left for Mills by McCartney after an argument. So touching was said voicemail, claims the bothersome blogger Guido Fawkes, that Piers played it to the Mirror newsroom so that any Beatles-loving colleagues might share the moment when Macca warbled "We Can Work It Out" to his wife.

Emergency legislation to reverse a controversial legal ruling on police bail will go through all stages in the Commons on Thursday, the leader of the House said.

What a state the Labour leadership is in. To give you some idea, the name of Mary Creagh gets mentioned as a leader-in-waiting. Who is she? It doesn't matter: she's wild. She makes Sarah Palin look like Geoffrey Howe.

Conservative ministers are preparing to rebuild bridges with Liberal Democrat colleagues after a bruising referendum campaign which has threatened to strain tensions within the coalition to breaking point.