MPs attack Coalition for failing to shut down failed £482m project for regional command posts three years after it was scrapped

A senior Anglican clergyman from Baroness Thatcher’s home town has criticised the cost of her funeral – saying the decision to spend an estimated £10m of public money on the ceremony was a “mistake”.

Government ministers are riding roughshod over the civil service, and that leads to government by cock-up and a loss of morale in Whitehall

Outlook Ah, the 1990s… MC Hammer, puffa jackets, grunge, Gazza's tears, This Life, the private finance initiative, negative equity, high interest rates and John Major desperately clinging on to his premiership.

Flawed or not, this week's ballot will give the public a say for the first time

The party's first-ever MP has quit as leader, so who's in the running to take over? Michael McCarthy reports

While a distressed looking Gordon Brown told the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about how he hated having his son's medical records exposed to the public gaze, Downing Street decided not even to try to shut down the story about David Cameron accidentally abandoning his young daughter in a pub.

As the BBC airs intimate conversations, project deviser Tony Phillips finds he is deeply moved

The Government is offering generous incentives to tenants, but critics say this could cause more problems than it solves, reports Chiara Cavaglieri

A hardy band of demonstrators gathered outside the Commons yesterday to protest about a government Bill that did not exist, and cheered when told it had been withdrawn, which it had not.

Labour's former deputy leader Lord Prescott today said it was "time for change" in the party's relations with the trade unions.

In a novel for the screen, a woman's luck goes from bad to verse

England have fixed their sights on becoming the world's No 1 Test team – and sooner rather than later.