POLITICS

Members of the Labour Party in London have chosen Ken Livingstone to be the party's candidate for the London Mayoral election in 2012.

The Communication Workers Union has said it will oppose plans to privatise the Royal Mail, saying the offer of 10 per cent of shares to the workforce is "patronising".

The Confederation of British Industry has said that it expects economic growth in 2011 to be slower than previously thought thanks to the Coalition government's emergency Budget. By contrast the CBI said it expected growth in the remainder of 2010 to be slightly faster than previously hoped for.

The Confederation of British Industry has said that the Coalition government should protect economic growth in its upcoming Spending Review.

Labour's new leader and possible next UK Prime Minister, will be announced on the 25th of this month. The contest started from the moment Gordon Brown conceded defeat and stood down as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party after May's General Election gave the Conservatives the largest number of seats, though not a clear majority. There are five candidates standing: Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, David Miliband and his brother, Ed Miliband. These candidates offer those e...

As party conference season begins Britain's politicians will be seeking to create some stability following the general election in May, the election which led to Britain's first coalition government since the Second World War.

The British Chambers of Commerce have called new plans from the European Parliament to extend maternity leave from six to 20 weeks "unaffordable".

The Labour Party and the unions that fund them appear to be doing their utmost to oppose the cuts being proposed by the Coalition government.

Connaught PLC is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Its two pence ordinary shares were trading in October 2009 at over 400 pence per share but on 10 April 2010, these shares traded at a 52 week low of only 9.20 pence and last week, before the company went into administration closed at 16.65 pence. That last share price valued this leading company in its field, with about a six percent share of an annual sector £10 billion, at only £23.27 million - and that includes the parts still fully oper...

The RMT union, which was jointly responsible for recent strikes on the London Underground, has called for the Trades Union Congress to call a summit at which union bosses will attempt to coordinate a wave of strikes to protest the coalition government's cuts.

The government has indicated that it will be pushing on with plans to privatise Royal Mail, either through an IPO or by selling to a partner or investor.

The plan to burn copies of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones in Florida was immature, insensitive, crass, vulgar and is to be condemned by all right thinking people.

The father of Prime Minister David Cameron has died, while on holiday in France.

"After the Allied victory of 1918...the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of...and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career...watching the people within those borders burn".

A group of anti-war protestors in Dublin have greeted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair with a barrage of eggs and, no doubt to remind him of Iraq, shoes.

Nigel Farage is to stand for the leadership of the United Kingdom Independence Party, almost a year after he stepped down from the post.

The latest non-revelations about William Hague are a sad indictment of the level to which our politics has sunk and will hopefully mark the end of the August "silly season", if not a maturing of our political discourse.

Samantha Cameron, wife of Prime Minister David Cameron, has given birth to a baby girl, the couple's fourth child.

Charles Kennedy, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats has rubbished the idea that he is planning to join the Labour Party, due to his discontent at being in coalition with the Conservatives.

Following the announcement that Lord Pearson of Rannoch is to stand down as leader of UKIP, we take a look at the party leaders who announced their resignation following a disappointing election.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, has said he will be standing down from his position next month.

The latest Unemployment figures announced on 11 August 2010 did at least look good. The level reduced by 0.2 percent on the quarter to 7.8 percent, the same level as this time last year. Unemployment for the three months to June 2010 fell to 2.46 million, a fall of 49,000, the largest quarterly drop for three years. Mr Chris Grayling, Employment Minister, told the BBC that what he found encouraging was that "there had been one of the biggest jumps for a very long time in employment levels,...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he will be donating the proceeds of his soon to be released memoirs to a centre run by the Royal British Legion aimed at rehabilitating seriously injured soldiers.

Ed Balls received a donation of £100,000 in July for his campaign to be the next leader of the Labour Party from the author Ken Follett, figures from the Electoral Commission show.

One of Labour's longest serving front-bench politicians, Jack Straw, has said that he is backing David Miliband to become the next leader of the Labour Party.

The pound was down against the dollar this afternoon ahead of a statement due today from the U.S. Federal Reserve and following weak economic data from Britain.

Over a thousand young Muslims have gathered at Warwick University to hear the Pakistan-born Muslim scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri explain why terrorism can never be justified according to the Koran.

Jack Straw has said that he will resign from frontline politics after 30 years as a frontbench politician.

Simon Hughes, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, has attacked an idea suggested by David Cameron that could mean the end of what the Prime Minister called "council houses for life".