Mandelson turns on US over Cadbury bid

Business Secretary tells foreign buyers not to 'come here and expect to make a fast buck' as Kraft goes hostile in deal

Clinton, Miliband and a very special relationship

Hillary Clinton's admiration for her 'vibrant, vital' British counterpart clearly in evidence at Nato meeting

Miliband feels wrath of mumsnet over nappy gaffe

Climate Change Secretary blasted in internet chat after admitting that he uses disposable nappies for his baby son

Fleets fishing tuna to extinction get €34.5m

EU accused of hypocrisy for giving millions in subsidies to fleets despite scientists' warnings on over-fishing

Brown ditches cuts on childcare vouchers

Prime Minister bows to pressure and agrees to keep childcare voucher tax relief, but a lower rate will apply only from 2011

Salmond is hurt and Holyrood knows it

The sacking of the Education Secretary reveals that the First Minister can no longer rely on his party's popularity

Lloyds may pull plug on Scots charity funding

Lloyds Banking Group may stop funding a foundation that distributes £6 million to Scottish charities

Sarkozy dumps Brown for President of Benin

Meeting in London was to have calmed fears that French-style regulation will be imposed on City after EU appointment

Clash of steel as Harman joins the class war

Tories bring up embarrassing public school past of Labour's deputy leader as she rages against undeserving bankers

Lloyds to join RBS in bumper bonus payout

Row as 200 executives at Lloyds, the partly state-owned bank, to receive payments worth up to 80 per cent of salaries

MPs could face salary loss for refusing payback

Politicians who lose appeals against expenses payback demands face having their salaries and pensions docked

Political secrecy prevented Iraq war preparation

Head of armed forces during war told Chilcot inquiry the Desert Rats were only fully ready day before the invasion

MPs' fury at Speaker wife's 'ladette' confessions

Speaker's wife launches bid to be Labour politician with confession of life as 'big binge-drinker' in her twenties

Harman condemns 'reckless' RBS board over bonuses

Leader of the Commons attacks bank which wants to pay out £1.5 billion in bonuses against wishes of the Treasury

Mandelson: I was beaten to EU job

The Business Secretary has admitted he was torn between his government role and the post now filled by Lady Ashton

Mandelson wades into row over RBS bonuses

Business Secretary calls for all banks to show restraint over bonuses, and warns against singling out RBS to limit rewards

Brown gets Cameron in a ‘right old Eton mess’

Gordon Brown appeared to be back on his big bruiser form and swatted Cameron’s questions aside as if he were a very posh fly