Labour and Lib Dem MEPs vote to give Brussels the power to raise its own taxes

…specifically in order to prevent national governments from cutting the EU budget ever again.

Angela Merkel may have a doppelgänger

According to reports, both the eurosceptic Chancellor and her europhile evil twin will visit London this week.

Ben Gummer makes another push for tax transparency

Renaming National Insurance as Earnings Tax will make our tax system more honest.

“Politics” may not have popular appeal, but issues do

Finally, the parties are beginning to change the way they start conversations with potential voters.

Pinning Down Miliband: What is Labour’s education policy?

Labour’s lack of progress in the face of Michael Gove’s onslaught has left even their most staunch supporters dissatisfied.

Employment statistics bring good news on almost every front

There are 400,000 more people in work today than there were a year ago – and inroads are being made into long-term and youth unemployment.

What are we doing to win the 2030 General Election?

We suffer today from the short-termist decisions of Tories decades ago. How will we leave a better political inheritance?

Today on the Jeremy Kyle Show: “My coalition partner’s thinking of cheating on me…with my worst enemy!”

“Four years in to our relationship, he’s suddenly all like, ‘he’s changed, he’s not the man I went into Government with’.”

Scotland’s first ever open primary selects John Lamont MSP to fight Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

The Scottish Conservatives’ Chief Whip is picked to have his third run at the Lib Dem-held seat.

Eurosceptics beware: the argument against Scottish independence could sink our chance of leaving the EU

You can believe we’re Better Together and that we’d be Better Off Out – but pushing the former too hard will undermine the latter.

No-one expected a Tory victory in Wythenshawe, but that’s no excuse for such a pedestrian campaign

Why were a hard-working candidate and activists given such an unambitious local council message to sell?

Never again can money be no object

There must be no return to Brownite splurges – we must have the discipline to take care of people’s hard-earned taxes.

It turns out the SNP don’t know what “independence” really means

Eurosceptics know that you can’t be independent while in a currency union – how come the SNP haven’t worked that out?

Are 2010 intake MPs really more libertarian than their predecessors?

Crunching the numbers from yesterday’s vote suggests conventional wisdom doesn’t quite match reality.

Breaking up the Environment Agency just became politically desirable

Now a flooding blame game is underway, what is the best way to quench public anger, unite ministers and demonstrate Government activity?