Ben Leapman Articles

Equal difficulties

Could new equality proposals put businesses in an uncomfortable position?

MPs will be deterred from making dubious expenses claims by the spotlight of public scrutiny

Jacqui Smith is adroitly guiding a still-influential Home Office

It is natural for party leaders to take all of the glory and none of the blame

One MP invented a second home and claimed expenses on it. Two paid themselves rent and claimed it back on expenses....

Jacqui Smith looked pretty pleased with herself as she addressed her guests at the Home Office new year drinks...

Gordon Brown has been accused of ordering his cabinet about, hogging the limelight when there is good news to...

Remember the Citizen’s Charter and those ‘Labour’s Tax Bombshell’ posters? Mocked at the time, they turned out to be...

Only two years ago, ministers were praying that David Davis would come from behind to beat David Cameron in the Tory...

One of the great trivia facts, on a par with knowing that the collective noun for otters is a romp, or that it is...

A ruling by Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, will have left some at Westminster sleeping uneasily. He has...

Within weeks of taking office in 1997, Tony Blair invited Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street to take her counsel on...

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said recently that he has a busy job because 40 per cent of news headlines are...

Lord Whitty, former general secretary of the Labour party, recently lamented in the House of Lords that, under Labour,...

Did you know that the number of working days lost to strikes last year was the lowest on record, only 157,400? This...

With Labour squabbling over the succession and David Cameron enjoying an extended honeymoon, one could almost forget...