Archive of articles from 2010

Profile: David Laws

David Laws championed free market causes in the 2004 Orange Book

Profile: David Laws

Analysis: Laws will recover, but will the coalition?

Nick Clegg and David Cameron face life without David Laws

David Laws' resignation gives him the time and space to recover and regroup. The coalition government has no such luxury.

Video: David Laws resignation

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David Laws quits as chief secretary to the Treasury after agreeing to repay tens of thousands of pounds in expenses.

Analysis: Cameron turns to the carrot after stick fails

The main threat to the coalition comes from Cameron's own backbenchers

Cameron's pro-business speech reveals his nervousness. He has yet to work out how to pacify his backbenchers.

Comment: Leadership race shows Labour has run out of ideas

Diane Abbott's lack of support shows how tired and conservative the Labour party has become.

Analysis: Coalition's tax shift is an ugly merger

New tax policy is nowhere near as straightforward as it looks

Analysis: Coalition's tax shift is an ugly merger

Video: Queen's Speech debate

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Watch highlights from David Cameron and Harriet Harman's contributions to the Queen's Speech debate here.

Queen's Speech 2010: Lib-Con bills in full

Coalition's legislative agenda in full

Queen's Speech 2010: Lib-Con bills in full

Comment: Could this be the most radical government of our time?

If just some of today's Queen's Speech becomes law we will be living under the most radical and important government of our times.

Queen's Speech: Reactions

All the reactions to this year's Queen's Speech

All the reactions to the 2010 Queen's Speech.

Queen's Speech 2010: Key issues

Queen's Speech covered more than just 21 bills

Queen's Speech 2010: Key issues

Queen's Speech

The first Queen's Speech of the coalition government

The Queen's Speech has set out the legislative agenda for the next 18 months.

Queen's Speech in full

The Queen's Speech in full

Read the Queen's Speech in full with politics.co.uk.

Feature: Election Aftermath

New politics: The 2010 election was one of the most dramatic in recent history

politics.co.uk picks up the pieces after one of the most exciting and dramatic general elections in recent history.

Video: Osborne on spending cuts

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Watch George Osborne outline the first batch of spending cuts.

Analysis: 'Shockwave' cuts are a long-term gamble

Treasury imposes huge cuts on Whitehall departments

Analysis: 'Shockwave' cuts are a long-term gamble

Election aftermath: Party politics

Three party politics: It's make or break time for the Lib Dems

In the final part of a special week-long series of features, politics.co.uk looks at what the election tells us about Britain's political parties.

Comment: New politics, old journalism

Trying to drive a wedge through the new politics is a dangerous game. After all, the government has an impressive electoral mandate.

Comment: The duplicity of the new politics

Osborne is playing politics with the country's finances and calling it 'new politics'.

Lib-Con policy document: Key points

The policy document offers an insight into the legislative agenda in the five years ahead

The key points from the coalition's 30-page policy document.

Election aftermath: The pollsters

Newspapers were regularly churning out opinion polls this election - but they do have an agenda

In the fourth part of a special week-long series of features, politics.co.uk looks at what the election tells us about opinion polls.

Analysis: Lib-Con document

Agreement on economic issues made the coalition possible

Analysis: Lib-Con document

Election aftermath: The public

Something to celebrate? The public seems to have got what it wanted

In the third part of a special week-long series of features, politics.co.uk looks at what the election tells us about the public.

Video: New MPs' first day

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Two new MPs' perspective as the new parliament meets for the first time.

Sketch: The subtle arts of swearing-in

Swearing-in: `It's a bit of a crush in here, isn't it?`

The calibre of the coming parliament has already been sorely tested by the swearing-in process, which has quickly defeated some MPs.

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