Business Secretary Vince Cable is to propose making the people who ran failed companies personally liable for the firm's debts as part of an overhaul of company rules.

A cap on the total amount of benefits that people aged 16 to 64 can receive begins rolling out across England, Scotland and Wales.

A third of Britain is effectively off-limits to lower-income working families because private rents are unaffordable, a new report claims.

Tories in the most marginal parliamentary seats urge David Cameron to bring in tougher conditions on housing benefit for some teenage mothers.

Leaving the European Union would be a "historical error", a manifesto backed by Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke warns.

The tax affairs of the Prince of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall will be examined by an influential committee of MPs later.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will push for tougher data protection laws in the EU, following revelations of widespread spying on the web.

Young people will lose out the most from planned reforms to the state pension, a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns.