A Conservative frontbencher has said Gordon Brown does not know what he wants to achieve and that the government is "rudderless."

Gordon Brown is "back at the helm" after a three-week summer holiday marred by damaging speculation about his future as prime minister.

More than 55,000 people have been stopped and searched since the government launched a £2m crackdown on knife crime, the home secretary has announced.

Ministers are set to strip under-performing specialist schools of their status, and the funding that accompanies it, it has been reported.

Yvette Cooper has attacked David Cameron saying he uses "photo ops and warm words" to distract from his "risky and destructive ideological agenda".

David Cameron has said his aim in government would be to bring about a social revolution equivalent to the economic revolution under Margaret Thatcher.

Gordon Brown has been urged by one of his ministers to consider a new tax on top earners to help ordinary families through the economic downturn.

The government has "turned a blind eye" to sex offenders and paedophiles living in a "twilight zone" of international travel, according to a new report.

David Cameron has called on the government to hit back at Russia over the invasion of Georgia by barring the wealthy Moscow elite from enjoying their luxury shopping weekends in London.

A majority of ePolitix.com subscribers believe Gordon Brown will survive conference season to lead Labour into the next general election.

Anti-monarchy campaigners are mounting a legal challenge to the oath of loyalty MPs swear to the Queen.

Reports have suggested that the majority of British troops could be withdrawn from Iraq by next spring.

Women's rights groups have called on the government to tighten licensing rules for lap dancing clubs.

Motorists who kill while using a mobile phone will face prison under new laws to come into force next week.

The skills minister has said that a generation of boys are turning to crime because they have inadequate male role models.

Government "policy failure" has contributed to the country's economic woes and led to a "catastrophic loss of trust" in Gordon Brown, a shadow Treasury minister has said.

Fewer than one in eight pupils are taking A-levels in some of England's most deprived areas, the Conservatives have claimed.

There has been a 22 per cent increase since 1997 in the annual amount NHS dental patients pay for treatment, according to the Conservatives.

Labour MP John MacDougall has died after a long illness.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has accused Russia of displaying "blatant aggression" toward Georgia during fighting over South Ossetia.