Janet Your critics say mumsnetters are middle class, and not representative of the electorate at large. I find it weird that political leaders are spending their time sucking up to your members ? surely the big issues in the next election, public spending, education, the NHS and jobs, are relevant to both men and women? [...]

Author: Karl Dallas
But his 20-stone girth and Rabelaisian sense of humour belied the seriousness of his art, which found its earliest expression in the Holy Loch anti- nuclear protests of the early 1960s, when with Josh Macrae, Jackie O’Connor, Nigel Denver and Morris Blythman (better known under his nom de plume of Thurso Berwick) [...]

Author: By Jane Merrick, Political Editor
Mr Hague had previously insisted he was aware only “in the last few months” that the billionaire Tory donor did not pay full UK tax on all earnings despite Michael Ashcroft being granted a peerage a decade ago.
At the time of the peerage, Mr Hague, then Conservative leader, told Tony [...]

Author: By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Last night Democratic leaders were increasingly confident of rounding up the 216 votes needed for a majority. But the outcome was hanging in the balance to the end, with the Republicans unanimously opposed, and the bill’s fate dependent on a handful of Democratic Congressmen, mainly abortion opponents, who say the [...]

It is a far cry from 2001, when locals were so concerned about the future of their hospital that they elected an Independent MP to protect it. Dr Richard Taylor, the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate who snatched the Wyre Forest seat from Labour ? and held on to it four years later [...]