The Government said tonight it would not move to freeze any of the UK assets of the Yanukovych regime until its European Union partners all agreed, despite the fact that EU member Austria, together with Switzerland and Lichtenstein, took action yesterday.

Eldergill, as a law student, left NCCL in 1979, so why did senior Labour figures stay?

NHS chief Sir David Nicholson has apologised for tweeting a spoof video which ridiculed one his top officials, poked fun at Jeremy Hunt and portrayed the health service’s controversial GP data extraction scheme as a conspiracy to make “millions and millions” from Big Pharma.

Tony Blair gave his strong personal backing to Ed Miliband’s internal Labour reforms on the eve of a special party conference that will approve the sweeping changes on Saturday.

A woman MP has become the latest high profile female campaigner to be targeted by internet trolls after speaking out against the marketing of pink toys for girls.

A Green MEP has warned of the advance of far-right parties across the European Union because disillusioned voters believed they were being denied a real choice by mainstream politicians.

Wide parts of Britain have changed out of recognition because the country has surrendered control of its borders, Nigel Farage claimed as he put immigration at the forefront of the UK Independence Party’s European election campaign.

New package will also include introduction of 'dementia friends' in high street chains

Conservative MPs representing flood-hit constituencies are pressuring Environment Secretary Owen Paterson to do more to protect households against flooding and to take climate change more seriously, The Independent has learnt.

The former minister is one of three Labour figures who have been accused by the Daily Mail of being 'apologists for paedophilia'

In the comic-strip fantasy “How Dave leapt to freedom in one bound” this is how Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to London goes.

Mr Farron says the policy is ‘wrong and unecessary’

Ukip is expected to get its best result ever in May’s elections to the European Parliament, chasing Labour for first place. But those who vote for them ought to know that their success will not make a blind bit of difference, because “they can’t change a thing”.

The Government was accused of having no strategy to combat child poverty after Iain Duncan Smith was forced to drop his plans to bring in a new set of targets to tackle the problem.

Producers of “legal highs” – chemicals engineered to mimic banned drugs – have started producing substances which imitate the effects of heroin, a minister has warned.