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BBC News - PoliticsThe latest stories from the Politics section of the BBC News web site.
David Cameron and fellow EU leaders meeting in Brussels will hear the new French president challenge the EU's German-led austerity drive.
Prime Minister David Cameron is rebuked for unparliamentary language after calling shadow chancellor Ed Balls a "muttering idiot".
The prime minister tells MPs he will resist a European Court ruling to give prisoners the right to vote in UK elections.
A book about the death of a British officer in Afghanistan, once pulped by the Ministry of Defence, is awarded the Orwell Prize for political writing.
People who repeatedly fail to fill in forms registering to vote could be fined as part of a shake-up of the system, ministers announce.
Danny Alexander announces new tax rules for senior civil servants after it emerged more than 2,400 could have avoided paying the full rate.
David Cameron clashes with Labour leader Ed Miliband over proposals to make it easier for businesses to sack workers.
Senior ministers are discussing how Britain would respond in the event of a military confrontation between Israel and Iran later this year.
British defence giant BAE signs a £1.9bn ($3bn) deal with Saudi Arabia to supply Hawk trainer jets, safeguarding over 200 UK jobs.
The state should do more to help addicts and make them employable, Iain Duncan Smith will say, with removing benefits a "hypothetical" option.
Ex-tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan explained how to access mobile phone voicemail messages, Jeremy Paxman tells the Leveson Inquiry.
The former Lord Chief Justice has said limits could be put on the cost and length of public inquiries.
Former army officer Patrick Mercer will not be investigated by standards authorities over claims he broke Commons rules.
Alternatives to the High Speed Two (HS2) rail link will not solve the capacity problems on Britain's railways, MPs say.
A group of Conservative MPs elected in 2010 call for "principled conservatism" and more power to be given to individuals and businesses.
The Ulster Unionist Party expels Strangford assembly member David McNarry.
A tour of the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.
A report into controversial changes to the Scottish secondary school exam system concludes they are on track to be fully implemented on time.
BBC Democracy Live takes you on a tour of the Scottish Parliament.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan says she wants to electrify the Great Western railway line to Swansea, but there needs to be a business case behind the plan.
A guide to the National Assembly for Wales.
The government has decreed that an area of the North Sea near Southwold in Suffolk is to be the only place in Britain where ships can transfer oil at sea.
Eurozone crisis brings home a 'grim' warning to industry in the West Midlands.
Political analysis from around England
An ill-tempered clash at prime minister's questions has made plain the widely contrasting positions of the government and the opposition on workers' rights.
UK political websites
A guide to who's doing what in David Cameron's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
The details of Labour leader Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet following the recent reshuffle.
Links to other Parliamentary broadcasters
David Cameron has said that European leaders must come up with a "decisive plan" for Greece and to get EU economies moving.
The Westminster village and journalists use words such as civet, chillax, grexit, twitterati and eurogeddon, but they may leave some of the public behind who have no idea what such words mean.
The Speaker intervened to ask the prime minister to withdraw a reference to Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as a "muttering idiot".
What can be learned from the depression of the 1930s compared with the economic problems facing the UK and other nations today?
David Cameron taunted the Labour leader over the party's donations from unions, after some threatened strikes during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend.
Tory party adviser Adrian Beecroft has called the Vince Cable a socialist, after the Business Secretary dismissed Mr Beecroft's report on employment law as "nonsense".
The 1990s Conservative government wanted to avoid statutory regulation of the press and explored ways to "do nothing" about it, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
Housing for cows and the other issues pushed by citizens
Attempts to control dangerous mutts, since Roman times
What happens if Greece quits the euro?
GP and ex-independent MP on new party's election hopes
Tracking the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems' fortunes
