By vetoing the snoopers' charter and securing the passage of an amended Defamation Bill, the Lib Dem leader has proved the sceptics wrong.

A bunch of new appointments and a more aggressive tone indicate that the Tories' campaign for re-election has already started.

The return of the economy to growth, however anaemic, allows the Chancellor to maintain the narrative that the UK is "healing".

When Ed Miliband paid tribute to Thatcher as a “brave” feminist hero whose achievements he personally “honoured”, you knew she hadn't died at all.

Errant MPs herded into a ragged line by Lynton Crosby; paltry growth that is just better than nothing and Labour disarray.

To succeed in age of globalisation, British manufacturers need a government that rejects laissez faire Thatcherism.

The freshly re-elected Unite general secretary tells the New Statesman that Labour will lose if Miliband is swayed by "the Jim Murphys and the Douglas Alexanders".

Miliband accuses the PM of a "disgraceful slur" after he says the Mid-Staffs report was a "reminder of Labour's record on the NHS".

The number of people who received emergency food aid rose to 346,992 in 2012-13, up from 128,697 the previous year.

A Labour government would not consider "cutting the health service", says Miliband in his biggest post-2015 commitment.

Strip out all special factors and total borrowing was £400m higher in 2012-13 than in the previous year.

Barrister Russell Fraser explains the reality of cuts to legal aid.

The Respect MP has threatened "to tell the whole truth" after Labour figures dismissed claims he could rejoin the party.

A higher deficit and a triple-dip recession could make this week even worse for the Chancellor than the last one.