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Byline: Reporting team: Steven Swinford, Peter Dominiczak, Holly Watt, Christopher Hope, Tim Ross PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH DAVID CAMERON yesterday said that a future Conservative government would 'cut taxes for hard-working [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and Christopher Hope DAVID CAMERON was embarrassed yesterday after struggling to guess the price of a loaf of supermarket bread. During a round of interviews, the Prime [...]

Byline: Tim Ross PLANS TO offer home-buyers £130billion of governmentbacked mortgages will not create a housing bubble, the Prime Minister has said. David Cameron announced in an interview with The [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent DAVID CAMERON has ruled out introducing a mansion tax if he is returned to office as prime minister at the next general election. Mr Cameron [...]

Byline: Tim Ross DAVID CAMERON has not ruled out a return to the Government for former chief whip Andrew Mitchell, who was forced to resign over the 'plebs' row, he [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS Political Correspondent THE PRIME Minister today launches what he calls a 'mission' to win over hard-pressed families, with immediate help to get on the housing ladder and [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS Political Correspondent GRASSROOTS TORIES are demanding that David Cameron pull out of the Coalition before the general election. A group of 35 constituency party chairmen, councillors and [...]

Byline: Peter Dominiczak and Tim Rosss LABOUR was last night accused of adopting a 'Stalinist' approach to planning after Ed Miliband unveiled measures to extend towns into the countryside and [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent VICTIMS of crime will be able to track the progress of their case online under a law guaranteeing their rights to fair treatment if Labour [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent ANDY BURNHAM, the shadow health secretary, tried to ban big tobacco companies from the Labour conference but was overruled by party headquarters. Labour has taken [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and James Kirkup LABOUR'S next manifesto will be submitted to the independent economic watchdog for approval, Ed Balls will say today, as he warns of more spending [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS and STEVEN SWINFORD DAMIAN MCBRIDE'S smear campaign against ministers was known about at the top of the party, senior Labour figures acknowledged last night. First, Ed Miliband [...]

Byline: STEVEN SWINFORD and TIM ROSS ED MILIBAND yesterday said he is 'bringing back socialism' to Britain as he unveiled plans to strengthen the minimum wage. Standing in a street [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS and STEVEN SWINFORD LIAM BYRNE found himself a Blairite minister in a Brown cabinet and a former banker with a Stakhanovite work ethic who became notorious for [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS THE BBC has been accused of acting as a 'cheerleader' for assisted suicide by broadcasting campaigners' views on national television without opposition. Lord Falconer, Labour's former lord [...]

Byline: Mary Riddell and Tim Ross RACHEL REEVES arrives at our meeting carrying a baby seat. The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury had woken soon after dawn and left [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Mary Riddell and James Kirkup PEOPLE earning as much as £60,000 a year are not 'rich' and would not face tax increases under a Labour government, a [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent WEBSITES which fail to stop children accessing pornography will have payments to them blocked by banks and credit card companies as part of a government [...]

Byline: Matthew Holehouse and Tim Ross BRITAIN'S aid to Africa has been questioned after a London court saw the opulent home of a former politician who was jailed for stealing [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS NICK CLEGG used a rallying speech last night to try to paint the Liberal Democrats as being on the side of workers and job creation, and labelled [...]

Byline: PATRICK HENNESSY and TIM ROSS ED DAVEY, the Lib Dem Environment Secretary, is to use his speech at his party's conference today to ask for more time for the [...]

Byline: TIM ROSS and PATRICK HENNESSY HOME OWNERS could be hit with an annual tax on the value of the land on which their houses are built, under radical plans [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent ED MILIBAND'S popularity has fallen to its lowest level since he became Labour leader three years ago, according to a poll. Mr Miliband is now [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent MILLIONS of pensioners face growing old in social isolation because they are trapped in family homes which they cannot leave, a report warns today. Pensioners [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent MILLIONS of pensioners face growing old in social isolation because they are trapped in family homes which they cannot leave, a report warns today. Pensioners [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent THE Business Secretary will warn today that 'complacency' could jeopardise prospects for growth, after George Osborne declared that his economic plan had worked. Vince Cable, [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent PATIENTS will be refused antibiotics under a government plan to tackle the 'catastrophic threat' posed by drugresistant superbugs. The rapid rise in microbes that are [...]

Byline: Peter Dominiczak, Tim Ross and Robert Winnett DAVID CAMERON last night backed down and agreed to delay a military attack on Syria following a growing revolt over the UK's [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent BRITAIN must take military action against the Syrian regime to prevent the spread of chemical weapons, David Cameron's National Security Council (NSC) has agreed unanimously. [...]

Byline: Tim Ross ED MILIBAND last night claimed he had forced David Cameron to abandon his timetable for military action against Syria after threatening to vote against the plan in [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and Peter Dominiczak BRITAIN must act against Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad's regime for 'the massive use of chemical weapons', David Cameron declared last night, as military [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and Peter Dominiczak BRITAIN must act against Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad's regime for 'the massive use of chemical weapons', David Cameron declared last night, as military [...]

Byline: Peter Dominiczak and Tim Ross CONSERVATIVE MPs will be ordered to return from their holidays to support the Government's plan for military intervention in Syria. Dozens of Tories, including [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent TWO ministerial aides who voiced opposition to fracking have been warned to get behind shale gas exploration because 'it is government policy'. Anti-fracking campaigners claim [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and Peter Dominiczak PARLIAMENT will be able to debate any British military intervention in Syria, Downing Street signalled yesterday. However, the Prime Minister could still authorise a [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent DAVID CAMERON is facing demands to set out the legal justifi-cation for military action against Syria amid mounting unease over the scale and speed of [...]

Byline: Tim Ross and Ben Farmer BRITAIN is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to [...]

Byline: Tim Ross PLANS to charge every household in the country £10.50 to cover the cost of insuring properties in flood risk areas amount to a 'tax' and represent poor [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent FIRST-TIME voters should be forced to take part in elections and fined if they refuse to cast a ballot, a think-tank has recommended. Compulsory first-time [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent CANCER patients in England are four times as likely to get new drugs as those living in Wales, leading some to move across the border [...]

Byline: Tim Ross CANCER patients in England are four times as likely to get new drugs as those living in Wales, leading some to move across the border for lifesaving [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent EVERY household in the country faces paying more to subsidise home insurance for properties in areas at risk of flooding under government reforms, an official [...]

Byline: Peter Dominiczak and Tim Ross PRESSURE is growing on David Cameron to abandon the controversial HS2 rail project after a senior Conservative peer called on him to 'scrap it [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent ED MILIBAND will risk splitting his shadow cabinet by refusing to endorse plans for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. The Labour [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent EVERY household in the country faces paying more to subsidise home insurance for properties in areas at risk of flooding under government reforms, an official [...]

Byline: Tim Ross Political Correspondent NICK CLEGG is attempting to delay the Coalition's flagship Immigration Bill because he fears restrictions on migrants' access to medical treatment will provoke a revolt [...]

Byline: Tim Ross, Political Correspondent ED MILIBAND should 'look in the mirror' and face the fact that he is failing to convince voters that he should be prime minister, a [...]