In the first major defeat of Mr Cameron’s premiership, a total of 53 Tory backbenchers voted with Labour, which was accused of cynically shifting its position on EU spending earlier this week to embarrass the Prime Minister. ...

Putin spent time appearing to educate Cameron on the finer points of judo - after all, Putin is a black belt, serves as the honorary president of the International Judo Federation and even wrote a book about the sport. ...

The Spanish government hopes to save more than €1 billion euros (£780 million) a year by clamping down on ‘economic migrants’ from other EU countries, including the UK. ...

The Prime Minister compared his opponents in the Church to parts of the Tory party who fought against gay rights and ‘for many, many years got itself on the wrong side of this argument’. ...

David Cameron threatened to veto support for a new European bank rescue deal yesterday as he clashed with Germany over fresh moves towards a single currency superstate. The Prime Minister vowed to put British interests first by not spending taxpayers’ money on propping up Greek and Spanish banks. ...

A crisis in the eurozone, crucial talks on Afghanistan and a faltering economy at home might seem more than enough to keep him occupied. Yesterday, however, David Cameron was forced into frantic denials over bizarre claims that he spends a ‘crazy and scary’ amount of time playing computer games on his iPad. ...

Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon's empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment. Brooks, 43, was charged with conspiring to remove boxes of archive records from Murdoch's London headquarters, concealing material from detectives, and hiding ...

The Prime Minister faced further embarrassment over his 'cosy relationship' with the Murdoch empire as it emerged that he signed off messages to Rebekah Brooks with the phrase 'lots of love'. Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks denied that she received up to 12 messages a day from the PM but said he finished those he did send with either 'DC' or the intimate phrase 'lol'. Mrs Brooks said that the ...

The cross-party parliamentary committee, which approved the report by a majority of six to four, also scolded News Corp's British newspaper arm for misleading parliament during its five year investigation into the hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers. ...

David Cameron was accused of “playing fast and loose with the truth” yesterday after he was caught out misleading MPs THREE times. [caption id="attachment_5227" align="alignright" width="300" caption="David Cameron speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons (Pic: PA)"][/caption] He told all three whoppers in the space of just 30 minutes during Prime Minister’s questions earlier thi ...