David Cameron confronted the mass Tory rebellion on an EU referendum with a warning that it was a distraction from tackling the 'burning building' of Europe's economy ...

A £5 million package to boost the Egyptian economy is to be announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg during a visit to Cairo ...

An inquiry panel investigating the causes of the August riots is to visit prisoners convicted of looting and other offences to ask about their motivation ...

As Liam Fox's career hangs by a thread, Richard Godwin examines how corporations and interest groups try to influence government ...

An additional 80,000 low income families are to be eligible for help with meeting the costs of childcare under plans announced by the Government ...

David Cameron was forced to rewrite part of his party conference speech to abandon a section apparently calling on people to pay off their credit cards ...

David Cameron acknowledges anxious voters cannot yet see signs of his Government's economic strategy taking the country out of recession ...

As the Tories gather in Manchester tomorrow, Sayeeda Warsi will be reading children's stories - creating audio books for visually impaired children and bullying her Cabinet colleagues, including David Cameron, to do the same ...

Not for the first time, the crisis of the euro turns on a crisis in domestic German politics ...

Angela Merkel has secured victory in a vital vote to back the new European mechanism to defend the euro ...

Harriet Harman tore into the Liberal Democrats today for doing the 'dirty work' of the Tories as she brought the Labour annual rally in Liverpool to a close ...

Nick Clegg will urge Europe to remain united after one of his most senior Tory colleagues condemned the eurozone as a 'burning building with no exits' ...

Is Britain broken or great? Yes, I'm confused too. In a very different tone to his dire warnings about the global economy, David Cameron has found time this week to launch a new tourism drive under the brand Great Britain ...

He's a political maverick, the £150 million global boss of the Ministry of Sound and part of a feuding Establishment family. James Palumbo talks about funding the Lib-Dems, fatherhood and his new satirical novel ...

Tory MPs today fought back after the party was attacked by Liberal Democrat Cabinet ministers at their Birmingham conference ...

Nick Clegg declares: 'We won't flinch' in a rallying call to the Liberal Democrats in the face of economic uncertainty and nerve-jangling poll ratings ...

Flagship plans for an elected House of Lords could be shelved as part of a deal to stop the re-drawing of Britain's electoral map, the Standard understands ...

Nick Clegg pledges to 'do more for growth' as Britain's economy took another battering ...

The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, makes one thing clear to his party today: notwithstanding our stubbornly low rate of growth, the Government has no intention of doing an about-turn on fiscal austerity ...

After Nick Clegg's defence of Lib-Dem policies, Labour's leader must dispel the doubts about what he stands for ...