David Cameron’s UK Conservatives today won a spectacular victory in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, seizing the formerly safe Labour seat by a margin of almost 8,000 votes.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing another disastrous setback in next week's crucial by-election battle, according to polls.

Ken Livingstone’s defeat in the race for London mayor put the seal today on a disastrous set of elections for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The UK’s main aviation regulation body is “incompetent” and introduces measures that tax passengers, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary told MPs today.

The decision to grant Sinn Fein MPs the use of offices in Westminster has been welcomed by Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid.