POLITICS

The Miliband brothers, David and Ed, have both received boosts to their campaigns to become the next Labour leader, setting the stage for what looks likely to come down to a final fraternal battle between the two.

Now however BP faces yet more attacks as U.S. legislators are looking not just at BP's safety precautions in the Gulf of Mexico, but at the possibility that the company may have lobbied for the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of killing 270 people with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. Of the 270 victims 190 were from the U.S.

The President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic has visited the Serbian capital of Belgrade in what has been hailed as a historic milestone in the relationship between the two countries which fought a bloody war in the 1990s.

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls has received a boost to his campaign after he was given the support of the Communication Workers Union, the union which represents postal workers and staged a series of strikes last year against changes made by management at Royal Mail.

A Conservative MP intent on banning the burka and the niqab in Britain has said that he refuses to deal with women wearing the garments if they visit him at his surgery.

Diane Abbott's campaign to become leader of the Labour Party received a minor boost after she received the support of two of the 14 trade unions affiliated to the Party, however Ed Miliband also received a strong boost from one of Britain's biggest unions.

Argentina has made it legal for homosexual partners to marry each other, despite the issue generating significant controversy.

The former Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has said that the publishing of his biography, "The Third Man" was beneficial to the Labour Party, despite it lifting the lid on much of the factionalism that plagued the party throughout the Blair-Brown years.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that "cannot understand" the sympathy that has been shown to Raoul Moat, who shot three people, one of whom died, before committing suicide nearly a week after his crimes.

Both Tony Blair and Nick Clegg urged the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resign during the secretive negotiations that took place between Britain's three main political parties in the aftermath of the general election held earlier this year, according to Peter Mandelson's memoirs.

Last week our politicians and elements of the media were arguing about whether former Home Secretary Michael Howard was right or not when he said "prison works" at a Tory Party conference in ages gone by. Two people for whom it has not worked are Chris Brown and the man who killed him last week, Raoul Moat, now also deceased.

What do the cities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and Kingston upon Hull, all have in common? No, or very few, Conservative councillors and each city is headed by a Liberal Democratic Council Leader. Many other northern towns and cities can be added to this list. These same Lib Dem councillors are going to find the funding cuts now being implemented as part of the coalition's Emergency Budget very uncomfortable to action. Many find themselves at odds with the Parliamentary Party, espec...

A Liberal Democrat councillor has spoken out against his party's coalition with the Conservative Party, saying that the deal could cost the party dearly at the next election. The comments come at a time of severely declining poll ratings for the party.

David Miliband received more than four times as much in donations for his campaign to be Labour leader than his nearest rivals, the Electoral Commission has revealed.

Momentum seems to be building behind David Miliband's campaign to be Labour leader after a second trade union put its support behind him, making him the only candidate so far to have secured union support.

Public sector pensions are becoming a 'national Ponsi scheme' according to the Public Sector Pensions Commission after the cost of funding is ‘probably larger than the national debt’.

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, is also the leader of a political party that calls itself the "Liberal Democrats", quite why such a party should be at the forefront of reducing democracy in this country remains a mystery.

Britain's fourth largest trade union has come out in favour of David Miliband in the race to become leader of the Labour Party, it is the first trade union to throw its support behind any of the five candidates.

Harriet Harman, acting Labour leader responding to Mr Osborne's Emergency Budget Statement said: "This is a Tory Budget that will throw people out of work, hold back economic growth and harm vital public services....It's his first Budget but its the same old Tories....In order to get the deficit down, you need to keep economic growth up and you need to keep unemployment down....Today's Budget is bad for growth and that will make it harder to cut the deficit."

British Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping to use the G8/G20 summit to improve relations with Russia, according to his spokesman.

Britain's toughest package of austere measures are to set the tone today in George Osbourne's first Budget as Chancellor of the Conservative minority Government.

Chancellor George Osborne looks likely to raise Capital Gains Tax when he announces his Emergency Budget tomorrow, despite a campaign by Conservative backbenchers to drop the idea.

Chancellor George Osborne is expected to end child benefits for the middle classes, cut public sector salaries and reduce National Insurance contributions when he announces his Emergency Budget this week.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France is visiting London and will meet Prime Minister David Cameron to mark the 70th anniversary of a broadcast by General Charles de Gaulle to Frenchman living in German occupied France.

A full statement of Chief Executive of BP, Tony Hayward's testimony in front of Congress.

The coalition government has announced the cancellation of a swathe of spending projects announced by the previous Labour government worth £10.5 billion, in its latest moves to cut Britain's budget deficit.

The coalition government has said that it will be axing free swimming for under 16 and over 60 year olds in England as part of its wider drive to bring down Britain's budget deficit.

Former Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit has said that Prime Minister David Cameron should consider holding an inquiry into the Brighton bomb, which killed five people at the Conservative Party Conference in 1984.

Despite their protests to the contrary, it is well known that politicians spend a good deal of time looking at opinion polls before elections. For Nick Clegg though, leader of the Liberal Democrats and now Deputy Prime Minister, he would do well to look at the polls immediately after the election if he wants the best for his party.