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| "The role of Lynton Crosby is to advise me on how to defeat a divided and useless Labour party. On the basis of today's evidence I'm not sure he's really necessary." PMQs specialPMQs verdict: Cameron wins another battle, but will he win the war? Even as they become more one-sided, these brutal PMQs exchanges are becoming less relevant as the general election run-in approaches. Labour reports Cameron to Cabinet secretary over Crosby lobbying Labour has asked the Cabinet secretary to investigate whether David Cameron may have broken the ministerial code over his relationship with Lynton Crosby. PMQs as-it-happened Follow all the twists and turns of the last PMQs before summer with our live blog. Before recessMPs clear GCHQ over Prism - but they're not happy Britain's intelligence eavesdroppers GCHQ used the US' Prism programme but did not break the law in doing so, MPs and peers have concluded. Prisoner voting battle 'will take a decade' Britain will have to continue its fight with the European court of human rights for a decade if it is to protect the ban on prisoner voting, David Davis has warned parliament. Jeremy Hunt accused of politicising hospital deaths Jeremy Hunt was accused of misleading the public about hospital deaths in a bid to ruin Labour's reputation on the NHS today. Late on a summer evening, gay marriage passes final parliamentary hurdle Gay marriage has passed its final parliamentary hurdle, as MPs used a late session in the Commons to wave through changes put in the bill by the Lords. Comment highlightsComment: The battle for Labour's secular soul Is 'one nation' Labour's policy on faith schools the same as New Labour's? Comment: It's time to end animal experiments for good Animals will never be safe until experimenters admit that all the genetic manipulations and wishful thinking in the world will not turn a mouse into a tiny human being. Comment: Trident review is bad news for the idealists The coalition's Trident nuclear deterrent review is a setback for the idealists and a disaster for the Liberal Democrats. And finally...Labour MP: No-one should work once it hits 30C Workers should be given time off if workplace temperatures hit 30C, a Labour MP has demanded. | McCluskey: Ed Miliband can make Labour the political party people needLen McCluskey, leader of the UK’s biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners’ Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government’s ruinous austerity programme. ESRC: 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'The ESRC is delighted to announce the funding of the new independent 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth'. NUT and NASUWT confirm next phase of industrial actionThe two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education. IET: Army officer receives prestigious engineering award for leadership in AfghanistanAn officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) has been recognised for her leadership and innovation during operations in Afghanistan. RSPCA: Baby gull plucked from nest and thrown from roofThe RSPCA is urging greater tolerance of gulls this summer holidays after a baby gull was thrown from the top of a two-storey department store and killed. CPAG: Low wages and Universal Credit in danger of locking families into povertyAlison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, responds to the findings of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Universal Credit published today. MRSA Action UK: Accounting for the reductions in MRSA and C.diff flawed - these are lives, not numbersPublic Health England figures show that trends over the last two years reveal that there is a direct correlation between the hospital and community apportioned cases of both Clostridium difficile and MRSA bloodstream infections. BHA: Legal humanist marriages move one step closerThe government has today brought forward a proposal for regulations that would give legal recognition to humanist marriages in England and Wales. The proposal is being made as an amendment to the Same Sex Marriage Bill currently in the House of Lords and comes in the wake of overwhelming cross-party support for legal recognition expressed by peers from all parties at the previous reading of the Bill. |
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