Politics

Grammar School Heads’ Association criticises Cambridge University's letter to schools and colleges telling teachers to retain AS-level exams

Telegraph View: A far greater impediment to the party's prospects is the ineradicable memory of what the last government did to the country

As Harold Wilson’s former press secretary, Joe Haines despairs of the current Labour leader’s stone age policies

The Prime Minister brandishes polling showing their has been a surge in the number of Britons wanting to leave the union

At least four backbenchers have called on the Labour leader to step down amid growing fears that he is leading his party to a general election defeat

After four years of holding back because of Labour's slim lead in the polls, Ed Miliband's critics are now openly calling for him to stand down

Labour leader Ed Miliband dismisses reports of a plot by Labour backbenchers to oust him as party leader as "nonsense", insisting he is "absolutely" here to stay

Prime Minister joins calls to try and offer stunning memorial a reprieve so more visitors are able to pay their respects

Anti-euthanasia campaigners say poll shows ‘chilling’ attitudes to elderly ahead of Lords assisted dying debate

Labour tells the First Minister to take his Education Minister with him when he steps down later this month as he refuses to consider Tory demands to take schools out of local authority control.

Nick Clegg's wife Miriam has said that George Clooney should play her husband in a film about the coalition. We have our own ideas about who should play him and some other politicians too...

Top secret documents, released in a legal case, show the security services have permitted their operatives to intercept communications between lawyers and their clients

Video showing Ukip's Mark Reckless supporting housing development in Commons hidden on website, as he now opposes project

Accompanied by her TV co-star Lord Sugar, Karren Brady – now Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge – pays her first visit to the House of Lords since becoming a life peer

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A new report shows that Britain has as much cause for pride as worry, says Robert Colvile

Danny Alexander has told fuel companies to pass on oil price cuts to drivers - but is the industry to blame for failing to pass savings on?

David Cameron slaps down Britain's European Commissioner and says it is "perfectly reasonable to express strong bills" about a £1.7 billion bill from the EU

The Conservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg campaigns in Rochester with his seven-year-old son against Mark Reckless, who defected from the Tories to Ukip in September

With six months to go until the election, political parties are busy selecting their candidates for 2015. Sophy Ridge has done some number crunching and the results ain't pretty