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Tories call for change as lead slips to two points

West Pier in Brighton. The Tories are holding their spring conference in the city.

The Conservatives have unveiled their campaign slogan of "vote for change" as one opinion poll reduced their lead to just two points.

Cameron: I'll overthrow Brown for Britain

David Cameron has described his campaign to oust Gordon Brown from Downing Street as a "patriotic duty" in a robust speech to the Tory party spring conference.

Court publishes new Binyam Mohamed paragraph

The Binyam Mohamed case has embarrassed the government

A paragraph criticising MI5 from the ruling concerning Binyam Mohamed earlier this month has been published, in a further damaging blow to the government.

Britain breathes sigh of relief as growth hits 0.3%

The UK economy grew for the second consecutive quarter

Fears of a double dip recession appear to have been temporarily put to bed as revised figures showed 0.3% growth in the UK economy.

Tory lead down to five points

The Conservative lead over Labour has been reduced to just five points, as the party prepares for its spring conference.

Charity Commission launches bullying charity probe

Christine Pratt's charity has been suspended

The bullying charity whose intervention in the Gordon Brown bullying allegations this week caused consternation and anger across the political spectrum is being investigated by the Charity Commission.

Crackdown on music videos demanded to protect children

Sexually suggestive music videos, such as those by Rihanna, would only be shown after the watershed under the report's proposals.

Music videos with suggestive themes should be banned before the watershed to prevent the sexualisation of children, a Home Office report has suggested.

Miliband falls prey to sexy Twitter hacks

Ed Miliband laughed off the Twitter hack today

Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to fall prey to a Twitter hack that sends out sexual explicit messages from the user's account.

Taliban 'reeling' as Afghanistan operation makes progress

Operation Moshtarak now well into stabilisation phase

Taliban fighters are offering an "incoherent" response to the Operation Moshtarak offensive in central Helmand province, despite the death of another British soldier.

'Motive' is new focus for assisted dying prosecutors

Assisted dying: New guidelines published today

The "motivation of the suspect" has been made the main focus for prosecutors when they assess assisted dying cases, but the director of public prosecutions has denied relaxing rules on euthanasia.

Brown to Blair: 'You ruined my life'

The Rawnsley book has been dominating political debate in Westminster this week

Gordon Brown repeatedly shouted at Tony Blair that he had ruined his life in their final confrontation before the handover of power, according to new details of Andrew Rawnsley's book.

RBS announces bonuses despite losses

Analysts had expected more significant losses than those announced by RBS

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced £1.3 billion of bonuses despite revealing losses of £3.6 billion.

Salmond publishes independence bill

Scotland mulls its options, but the referendum may never take place

Alex Salmond has revealed the questions that could be asked in a referendum on independence today.

Global poverty pushed up agenda

'1.4 Billion Reasons' highlighted global poverty injustice

An attempt to send global poverty up the agenda for the forthcoming general election campaign has got underway in St Paul's Cathedral.

Osborne drags debate back to the deficit

Osborne returns the debate to the public finances

George Osborne has dragged political debate back to the deficit, with a speech which made "Gordon Brown's debt" central to the Tory campaign.

Asylum claims plummet

Applications for British citizenship were up

The number of people claiming asylum in the UK has fallen, according to official figures.

Cameron draws blood

David Cameron mocked Gordon Brown's relationship with his chancellor today.

David Cameron brutally mocked Gordon Brown's relationship with Alistair Darling today, after an interview with Sky News saw the chancellor admit Downing Street unleashed "the forces of hell" against him.

The media on trial

Max Mosely faces the press. His privacy case was a defining moment in the debate over press standards.

The media is facing its most comprehensive trial for years today, after an influential group of MPs finally released their long-awaited assessment of the industry.

PM apologises for child migrants

Chuld migrants were packed off to Australia between 1920 and 1967 and were frequently abused

The prime minister apologised to the British children forcibly sent to Commonwealth countries for a life of abuse and unpaid labour this afternoon.

Brown tries to limit damage from Darling comments

Smile for the camera? The relationship between Brown and Darling appears to be under strain

The prime minister and his chancellor are engaged in an unprecedented war of words in public after Alistair Darling said the "forces of hell" had been unleashed against him.

MPs: Libel is destroying free speech

Justice served? Libel cases can be impossible to defend financially

Britain's libel laws are threatening to destroy the country's reputation for free speech and must be urgently reformed, MPs have warned.

Trafigura: Parliament hits back

Protestors gag themselves outside the offices of Carter Ruck, Trafigura's lawyers, to dispute the use of super-injunctions

MPs have hit back at Trafigura's attempt to impose a 'super-injunction' on parliamentary proceedings with a demand for firm regulations to make sure it never happens again.

Maddy McCann and News of the World stoke MPs' anger

The coverage of Maddy McCann's story saw a severe slie in standards, MPs found

The reporting of Maddy McCann's disappearance and the News of the World phone tapping scandal reveal the decline of press standards, MPs have found.

Exiting Kilfoyle 'prefers outback to politics'

Peter Kilfoyle, one of Labour's most colourful backbenchers, has confirmed his plans to stand down at the general election.

Argentina takes Falklands to UN

Victory in 1982 Falklands war means the islands remain British

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will meet with Argentina's foreign minister as opposition to Britain's ongoing sovereignty over the Falkland Islands rises.

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