The Home Secretary is "on the precipice of destroying a police service that is admired and replicated throughout the world", rank-and-file officers said today.

Home Secretary Theresa May insisted today she was "confident" the Government was "closer to the deportation of Abu Qatada than we were two days ago" after the Jordanian terror suspect lost his attempt to make a final appeal to Europe's human rights judges.

Qatada could be back on British streets within two or three weeks if bail is allowed

Ed Miliband said Labour would govern for the whole country "not just for the wealthy few" as he launched Labour's English local elections campaign.

The Respect Party will field candidates in every ward at Bradford's forthcoming local-council elections following George Galloway's shock by-election victory in the city.

Labour has accused the coalition of overseeing a “shocking” 5,000 cut in police dealing with 999 emergencies.

Nearly 900,000 of the nation's poorest people face losing thousands of pounds in income from next month because of cuts to tax credits, official figures reveal.

Ed Miliband's leadership suffers another blow today with an exclusive Independent on Sunday poll showing only his brother can secure Labour a lead over the Conservatives.

Cooper's politics are not mine but she would be populist on law and order, and she would be noticed

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has expressed distaste at politicians doing photoshoots with their children - the day after Ed Miliband was pictured at home with his family.

The question comes framed with the tentativeness of one who long ago failed the solicitors' final exam by what remains the widest margin in Law Society history ... but is there not good reason to try News of the World employees, and perhaps vicariously the company itself, for blackmail?

Board stiff

Health ministers will vote against calls to change the advice given to women considering an abortion in an attempt to defeat a move aimed at reducing terminations.

The Government is planning emergency powers to forcibly relocate terror suspects, months after pledging to scrap the existing measure.