The Government is to consult on a range of new measures to deter unsafe drivers who caused around 3,000 deaths on the roads last year and ten times that number of serious injuries.
Top of the list of proposed measures will be the possibility of an automatic ban Read more
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has slammed the Ministry of Justice for making the system of compensation for vistims of violent crime so bureaucratic that fewer than 5% of victims have applied for the compensation they are entitled to.
Sir Edward Leigh, Read more
Simon Darby, the deputy leader and spokesman of the British National Party, is on the salaried staff at London’s City Hall, it has been revealed. Mr Darby is paid £16,000 a year as a personal assistant to BNP Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook, who was elected earlier this year.
President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice for secretary of homeland security is Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, multiple Democratic sources close to the transition told CNN on condition of anonymity.
She is a popular governor of John McCain’s home state and was at least on the “long list” of Read more
The Obama transition team has indicated that former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle is to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services in the President-elect’s cabinet.
Daschle accepted the offer, according to two Democratic sources close to Daschle and with intimate knowledge of the decision.
An Read more
Senator Ted Stevens yesterday narrowly lost his race for re-election to the Senate. Just last month he was convicted on corruption charges and faced a jail sentence even if he had been elected.
Stevens, who turned 85 on Tuesday, was trailing Mark Begich, the Democratic mayor of the Read more
Eric Holder, 57, a member of Obama’s vice-presidential search committee, was reported to be Obama’s top choice to head the justice department by Newsweek and other news organisations yesterday.
He is a former judge and was deputy attorney general in Bill Clinton’s administration. He would become the first Read more
President-elect Barack Obama has published his legislative priorities on LGBT equality and non-discrimination issues. Obama, although he was outflanked somewhat by Hillary Clinton in the primary battle in efforts to reach out among gays and lesbians, has always had a strong record and strong positions on LGBT issues Read more
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to introduce new legislation to make men who pay for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps face a prison sentence.
Jacqui Smith said: “My proposal is that men should think twice about paying for sex. The reason they should do that is Read more
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said that the Government must do more to encourage banks to lend to small and medium-sized businesses to help them through the current economic crisis.
Mr Clegg has also gone out of his way to attack Conservative plans to halt Read more
