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

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 former Labour MP, beaten at the last election and now keen to find a new seat in order to return to Westminster,...

The Home Office is never far from the headlines, but a calmish summer suggests that the sacking of Charles Clarke in...

In the small hours of Friday May 5, the only smiles were on Labour faces as council seat after council seat turned...

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is one of the most powerful and far-reaching pieces of legislation passed under...

Remember ‘Bambi Blair’? The doe-eyed fawn was conjured up by the Tories after 1994 to attack Labour’s new centrist...

Crime discriminates. The poorest people, in the most deprived areas, are more likely than anyone else to become...

In Downing Street and Whitehall there has been much hand-wringing since July 7 over how to clamp down on Islamic...

As Tory MPs were voting to eliminate Ken Clarke from their leadership contest, another heavyweight Clarke – the...

Received wisdom says the five years I spent as a lobby correspondent, from 1999 to 2004, were a barren period for...