David Cameron has appointed George Eustice, his former press secretary and former Ukip candidate, as his new adviser on Energy and Climate Change issues, it was announced today.

The unusually large band of 148 new Tory MPs elected in 2010 are very much 'Thatcher’s children'

Stanley Johnson calls interview with his son a ‘disgusting piece of journalism

London Mayor left floundering by a series of damaging questions from BBC presenter

Boris Johnson looked profoundly uncomfortable on this morning's Andrew Marr Show as stand-in host Eddie Mair grilled the Mayor of London on matters of personal integrity. Here's a transcript of one particularly bruising encounter:

As a young MP in 2005, David Cameron was so disenchanted by Lynton Crosby's concentration on immigration during that year's general election campaign that he kept the issue out of his constituency pamphlets.

When two year-old James Bulger was murdered in 1993, the nation united in grief and shock.

Inside Westminster

Barbara Roche and Gavin Barwell say both their parties are out of touch on immigration

Aha, the Wizard of Oz. How did he get that name?

The Australian political strategist was a proven winner with John Howard and Boris Johnson. His politics are populist, negative and ugly - but above all effective

This may be the week that an Australian you've probably never heard of becomes the third most powerful man in government, after David Cameron and George Osborne. So today I thought I'd tell you a bit about Lynton Crosby.

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 bald head apparently now represents potency and decisiveness, but shiny-headed men are still on the sidelines