PMQs: Cameron claims ally in Socialist Hollande

Ed Miliband has mocked David Cameron for claiming new French president Francois Hollande as an ally in this week’s prime minister’s questions.
PMQs as-it-happened

Review our live blog as David Cameron and Ed Miliband lock horns at PMQs for the first time since the 2012 Queen’s Speech.
Local elections 2012: Big wins for Labour boost confidence in Miliband

Ed Miliband’s party is continuing to make solid gains across England, as local election results continue to hammer the coalition’s Conservative and Liberal Democrats.
As-it-happened: Murdoch at Leveson, Jeremy Hunt statement and PMQs

Review our live coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s appearance before the Leveson inquiry – as well as prime minister’s questions from midday.
Galloway hits out at ‘complacent’ Westminster elites

George Galloway has attacked Westminster’s politicians as complacent and narcissistic in an uncompromising comment piece for politics.co.uk, three weeks after his by-election victory in Bradford West.
PMQs sketch: Doing down the Budget

If this Budget were an underfire minister, it would have to resign.
Cameron ready for ‘full-throttle fight’ in local elections

David Cameron chose attack as the best form of defence as he launched the Conservatives’ local elections campaign.
Political savvy linked to toe size

Politicians with large big toes are more likely to succeed at the ballot box, according to fresh research.
End-of-term report: Britain is limping through 2012

The coalition is leaking political capital. British society continues to fragment. This year, it’s fair to say, has got off to a faltering start.
PMQs sketch: Punchy Clegg is the right kind of lightweight

With David Cameron off in Washington trying to alter the leader of the free world’s initial impression that he is a bit of a lightweight, this was an opportunity for Clegg to prove his own fighting credentials.