Politics.co.uk staff

Osborne: Brown govt responsible for Libor scandal

The tension and speculation over who is to blame over the rate-rigging Barclays scandal with the banks and Bank of England heated up today as the chancellor, George Osborne claimed his predecessors, Gordon Brown’s Labour government and minister Ed Balls were “clearly involved”.

After controversy, a new leader for the BBC

The BBC has announced George Entwistle, current director of BBC Vision, as the station’s new director-general.