Conservative MP defects to Labour
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Conservative MP Quentin Davies has defected to the Labour Party, he announces.
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London: A launch of election policies by Tony Blair's main political opponents was blown out of the water yesterday as one of their senior members defected to the British prime minister's party.
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The Tories shrug off the impact of the defection of an MP to Labour - as Michael Howard unveils plans to save Â£35bn.
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Michael Howard's decision to put immigration at the heart of the Conservative general election campaign drew an initial muted reaction from Labour yesterday.
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A major Tory donor who resigned as the party's deputy treasurer is to become an advisor to Gordon Brown.
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Peter Hain failed to declare Â£100,000 of donations to his campaign for Labour's deputy leadership
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A Tory frontbencher resigns after saying he met "a lot of" idle ethnic minority soldiers who used racism "as cover".
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Long-serving Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has failed to be readopted as a parliamentary candidate.
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First he was in, then he was out. Then he was in again - maybe. Boris Johnson did his version of the political hokey-cokey yesterday over whether he wanted to become the Conservative candidate for London mayor.
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Zimbabwe's controversial information minister looks set to be disappointed in his campaign to become an MP.
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Embarrassment for Cameron over Tory by-election candidate's involvement in Labour party donation.
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A Labour peer has admitted taking money to introduce an arms lobbyist to a minister.
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Tory candidate accepts free space for HQ from developer blocked by Ken Livingstone
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A French MP has returned in disgrace from the Middle East after a bizarre private mission failed to free two journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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BOURNEMOUTH, England -- The leader of the opposition Conservatives laid claim to the center of British politics yesterday, as the party was energized by new confidence that it can oust Tony Blair's Labor Party, which has been in power for nine years.
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An MP whose political career is in tatters after a probe found he had misused public money to employ his son told a newspaper Sunday: "I am not a crook."
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Labour has pulled ahead of the Conservatives for the first time since October, poll reveals.