Spending powers should be restored to authorities in big cities across the country, according to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is set to meet food retailers and trade bodies later to establish what is being done […]

David Cameron says Britain and India can be one of the great partnerships of the 21st century, as he arrives […]

The work and pensions secretary criticises people taking part in back to work schemes “who think they’re too good” for […]

Two candidates in the Eastleigh by-election become embroiled in controversy over comments on state schools and ex-PM Margaret Thatcher.

The government’s proposed change to housing benefit rules, dubbed the “bedroom tax”, is “perverse”, shadow minister Stephen Timms says.