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Anyone caught carrying a knife without a good excuse should expect to go to prison, Tory leader David Cameron says.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has argued that anyone over 16… Continue reading

The world’s richest nations will today be told by Gordon Brown to stop backsliding on their pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010. The Prime Minister will risk a clash with world leaders at… Continue reading

Phil Woolas said health workers were aware such marriages were creating increased risk of genetic problems.

The claims infuriated the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) which called on the prime minister to "sack… Continue reading

The Brown government has changed its mind on placing security scanners at every London tube station and mainline train stations across the country, because the technology does not work and the public would… Continue reading

Last year’s German triumph in clinching the reform treaty after some eight years of institutional wrangling now looks like a pyrrhic victory.

The Irish No vote on Lisbon dominated the Brussels… Continue reading

June 18 (Bloomberg) — Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords plan to back Prime Minister… Continue reading

Britain’s 33 million motorists have been urged by Downing Street not to ‘panic-buy’ fuel as tanker-drivers prepare to launch a four-day strike from Friday.

As a new crisis loomed… Continue reading

Hundreds of lorry drivers converged on London and Cardiff today to demand the government cut fuel duty, complaining that high diesel costs are forcing… Continue reading

First there was the European Union, to be joined by the Mediterranean Union, the African Union, and soon enough a North American Union. Now we have Unasur, short for the Union of South… Continue reading

Gordon Brown: Proposing ‘age tax’
Every working family could face paying an "ageing tax" to provide care for the
elderly, Gordon Brown proposed yesterday.

It would take the form of… Continue reading

Rocketing global food prices are causing acute problems of hunger and malnutrition in poor countries and have put back the fight against poverty by seven years, the World Bank said yesterday.

Robert Zoellick, the Bank’s president… Continue reading

Alistair Darling faces a black hole on finances and will cash in by taxing alcohol and motoring

Gordon Brown was facing a twin backlash last night over Budget… Continue reading

Almost nine in 10 new jobs created over the past decade have been taken by foreign-born workers despite a sharp increase in the number of skilled British workers, official figures show.

The number of… Continue reading

Mass fingerprinting, biometric passports, identity cards and international identity databases will not protect Britain and other European countries from terrorists or criminals.

This startling admission comes in… Continue reading

The Guardian

An immediate national ban on the movement of all cattle, pigs, sheep and goats was imposed last night after foot and mouth disease was confirmed in cattle at a… Continue reading