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Gordon Brown calls for global banking shakeup

Speaking at G20, prime minister calls on world’s bankers to adopt ‘social contract’ to prevent future bailouts hitting taxpayer

Fresh fatalities as Britain stops to remember war dead

As thousands join Remembrance Day ceremonies, MoD confirms 200th combat death in Afghanistan - followed by the 201st

Drama reveals Queen's spats with Thatcher

The mutual mistrust and dislike between the monarch and former Prime Minister is explored in a new Channel 4 series

Brown in bank supertax row

The PM has thrown his weight behind a 'Tobin tax' on financial transactions as a way of taxing and reining in the banks

Briefing: MPs’ expenses

The official report on the expenses scandal proposes big cuts and an end to extravagance, but many MPs are fighting to keep their lifestyles

My week: Franny Armstrong

The eco-activist was rescued by the London mayor – cue media frenzy

PROFILE: Elizabeth Truss

The high-flying candidate’s past extramarital affair has sparked a revolt by Norfolk Tories, revealing a rift between the old and new party

US rejects Brown's plans to tax transactions

Humiliation for the prime minster as Americans reject his G20 ideas for banking reforms to prevent taxpayer bailouts

Further row over MPs' expenses reform

Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, due to implement proposed plan to clean-up parliament, is considering scrapping key measures

Responsible radical plots a green revolution

Chris Smith says he must persuade a sceptical public that climate change remains the greatest threat to Britain

Brown remains oblivious to his Annus Horribilis

Prime Minister's visceral need to be right and his obsession with dividing lines have sowed the seeds of his destruction

Chilled by the first draft of history

Ann Treneman reflects on David Cameron’s anger, Gordon Brown’s YouTube performance and the absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley

Brown attacks SNP over Glasgow airport link

Campaigning in Glasgow North East, Gordon Brown described as “inexplicable” the decision by the SNP to scrap the £170 million rail...

Government ‘should buy vulnerable cliff homes’

Lord Smith of Finsbury said it is unfair that people should lose their homes to erosion through no fault of their own

Families face £227 bill for nuclear power

French company EDF Energy tells UK ministers to fix the market to help fund new generation of nuclear power stations

Minister renews attack over adviser's sacking

Row over Professor Nutt's dismissal deepens as Science Minister said advisers should not be sacked without his input

Expenses row MP Kirkbride reverses quit decision

The member for Bromsgrove, who is being investigated by the Legg Commission, changed her mind about future

Brown has raised prospect of 'failure'

Gordon Brown has introduced a string of nuances on Afghanistan which have raised the very doubts he wished to dispel

Ministers retreat over Nutt row

Lord Drayson, the Science and Innovation Minister, endorses independence after sacking of drugs adviser