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Higher education pressure on Lib Dems continues to mount
Lib Dems ‘plotted tuition fees U-turn’ before general election

By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats planned to abandon their tuition fees pledge before the general election, it has emerged. A book written by Conservative MP Rob Wilson being serialised by the Guardian newspaper has revealed the party planned to ditch its higher education “headache” in secret preparations for coalition negotiations. The news is deeply… Read more »

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Gen Sir David Richards is the senior officer in Britain's military
Don’t give up, new military chief urges

By Alex Stevenson There is “all to play for” in Afghanistan, the new chief of the defence staff has urged. General Sir David Richards appealed to the British public not to abandon hope in the nine-year struggle against the Taliban in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. He will lay a wreath at the… Read more »