MPs braced for expenses backlash
19.31 Fri Jul 04 2008
MPs were facing further anger over their expenses after they rejected calls for the abolition of the "John Lewis list".
MPs award themselves 2.25% pay rise
22.44 Thu Jul 03 2008
MPs have bowed to Government demands for restraint and awarded themselves a 2.25 per cent pay rise.
GPs criticised for 'gentleman's agreements'
10.16 Thu Jul 03 2008
A Government minister has accused GPs of operating "gentleman's agreements" in which they promise not to take other doctors' patients.
Angry truckers descend on London
14.18 Wed Jul 02 2008
Angry truckers have driven their lorries into London in a major protest aimed at getting the Government to cut the price of fuel.
More help needed for 10p tax losers
07.45 Sat Jun 28 2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling must do more to compensate the 1.1 million low-income households, MPs have said.
Ministers face expenses probe
23.05 Wed Jun 25 2008
Cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper are being investigated by the Parliamentary standards watchdog over their expenses.
Energy chiefs warn of higher bills
22.50 Tue Jun 24 2008
Britain's energy bosses have warned householders to brace themselves for higher bills.
MPs set for new pay rise
08.14 Sun Jun 22 2008
MPs could be in line for a pay rise of about £40,000 a year in return for scrapping their controversial second homes allowance.
MPs give up pay rise for 2008
12.14 Tue Jun 17 2008
Government ministers will forgo their pay rises for 2008/09 to reflect public sector wage restraint.
MPs reject abortion time-limit reduction
07.59 Wed May 21 2008
MPs have rejected proposals to cut the time-limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 22 weeks.
Abortion time-limit retained
23.38 Tue May 20 2008
A bid to cut the time-limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 22 weeks has been defeated in the Commons.
Senior MPs launch expenses probe
22.41 Mon Feb 04 2008
A root-and-branch review of Parliamentary expenses is to be conducted by senior MPs in the wake of the Derek Conway affair.
MPs' report slams 'no-go' Britain
10.08 Wed Jul 25 2007
Town centres are becoming "no-go areas" after dark, with drunken yobs behaving like "an occupying army", MPs have warned.
MPs back all-elected second chamber
23.13 Wed Mar 07 2007
MPs haven broken decades of deadlock over House of Lords reform by backing a fully elected second chamber.