The Iraq inquiry will focus on UK-US relations before the war as ex-ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer gives evidence.

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to hold talks in London to discuss a timetable for the handover over power in Afghanistan.

Young people should buy identity cards as a "convenient" way of getting into nightclubs and bars, a minister says.

The future of a Tory parliamentary candidate who had an affair with an MP is to be decided at a meeting later.

A plan to give the City watchdog powers over pay is a "dangerous route to go down", a former RBS chairman tells the BBC.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says the government should cancel its legislative programme and focus on cleaning up British politics.

The government rejects claims that more inmates are given licence to stay out of jail overnight to ease overcrowding.