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Deposed by email?
Email plot threatens Brown

By Alex Stevenson Labour backbenchers are the focus of Westminster today as a small group of rebels seek to bring down the prime minister. Those willing to put their name to a letter asking Gordon Brown to stand down can indicate their support by emailing an account recently set up. Estimates vary wildly about the… Read more »

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Jonathan Ross' salary is among the highest in the BBC
BBC told to reveal stars’ pay

By politics.co.uk staff There was pressure on the BBC overnight to reveal the amount it pays its most famous radio stars after an influential committee of MPs described the secrecy surrounding their salaries as “highly unsatisfactory”. The National Audit Office (NAO) has not been given access to individual salaries because it refused to sign a… Read more »