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In an interview on BBC Newsnight last night, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham admitted that his party would put the ideology of socialised care ahead of patient choice and quality of healthcare. He also slammed the Coalition government for

All airline passengers flying in and out of Europe are to have their personal data, including bank details, stored on a police database for up to five years in order to combat terrorism, under new plans from the European Commission.

To mark 100 days to the General Election Ukip have unveiled a list of 100 promises to the electorate. Top of the list is, of course, their pledge to get Britain out of the European Union, which has been the

MPs have uncovered massive waste in the EU’s aid spending programmes, to which the UK is a major contributor. Thanks to a culture within the European Commission which deems a project a success only when the full budget has been

A group of 15 Labour MPs have released a statement calling on Labour leader Ed Miliband to lurch left. Following the electoral success of anti-austerity party Syriza in Greece over the weekend, the hard left MPs are demanding an end to

The Labour Party derailed Britain’s shale gas revolution last night by forcing the government to amend a new law giving fracking the go-ahead to include onerous regulations. Despite delivering lower energy prices in America, where fracking for shale gas has been embraced, Members of

Britain’s courts are experiencing a massive surge in prosecutions for sex offences following the denouncement of late TV presenter Jimmy Savile as a predatory paedophile, and the successful prosecution of Asian grooming gangs in Oxford and Rotherham, the Justice Secretary

Labour’s drive to encourage diesel cars was “wrong” and a “massive problem for public health”, the shadow environment minister has admitted. Although diesel cars have fewer carbon emissions they churn out much higher levels of air pollutants that some believe

Further evidence of Tory splits over the introduction of Plain Packaging for cigarettes has emerged as Conservatives lined up to attack their health minister Jane Ellison, who pushed the measure through. It is understood that the plans were not signed

Leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage has hinted that he may be open to forming a coalition with the Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservative Party after the next election if Cameron was able to guarantee a

As MPs prepare to vote on a Bill which would pave the way for shale gas extraction, or fracking, to take place in the UK, the MPs who make up the Environmental Audit Committee have been accused of placing green

Joining al Qaeda or ISIS should not be illegal, the leader of the Green Party has said. She could see no conflict between that and her party’s wish to downgrade much of Britain’s military. The party plans to turn a

Labour has been accused of “rank hypocrisy” over the NHS as Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has admitted that the party plans to close hospitals and reduce the number of beds available if it takes power in May. His party

Thirty babies and mothers are believed to have died in an NHS hospital over the last decade – because doctors and midwives refused to speak to each other. Giving evidence to a government enquiry into the deaths, midwives have said

Baroness Warsi has accused the government of failing to do enough to ‘engage’ with Muslim groups in Britain, and has even blamed the government for the failure by the Muslim Council of Britain to react positively to a letter from

Britain’s only Green Party-led city council has again been pitched into turmoil thanks to a planned referendum on raising council tax by 5.9 percent – a measure that council leader Jason Kitcat insists must be enacted in order to balance

France is to introduce a national “day of secularity” and teach children about French national symbols, including the tricolor and the Marseillaise, in an attempt to curb rising religious fundamentalism. The government has pledged €250 million (£190 million) over the

Yesterday’s announcement by the government that they will bring a vote on legislation to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes before the next general election in May has already caused splits in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

The mother of a ten year old girl who was left in tears by school inspectors after they quizzed her about lesbianism and whether she felt trapped in her own body has spoken out. Lena Wilkinson, whose daughter Ariella attends Grindon

Environmental campaigners make much of the potentially catastrophic outcomes of increased atmospheric CO2 levels, often exaggerating their claims in order to gain public support for policies designed to tackle anthropogenic climate change. If challenged they often fall back on the

A British jihadi who faked his own death on social media in order to sneak out of Syria is to be approached by intelligence officers to see whether he can lead them to ‘Jihadi John’. He will be approached in

Inspectors have labelled pupils at a Christian school bigots and forced it to close after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was. Teachers at the school say he referenced terrorism in his answer, but argued