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(Reuters) - Here is a look at the queen's reign by numbers: POLITICS: - The queen is the second longest serving monarch. Only five other kings and queens in British history have reigned for 50 years or more: • Victoria (63 years) • George III (59 years) • Henry III (56 years) • Edward III (50 years) • James VI of Scotland …

Hospitals are to be ranked by how many patients are happy for their friends and family to receive the same care they do.

Hospital patients will be invited to rate the treatment they receive and say whether they would recommend it to their loved ones, Prime Minister David Cameron will announce on Friday.

British Prime Minister David Cameron appointed a minister to decide on Rupert Murdoch's bid for control of pay-TV giant BSkyB, despite knowing that the official backed the deal, an inquiry has heard.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Supporters of independence for Scotland will launch on Friday what they say is the biggest grassroots campaign in Scottish history, a move that could result in the demise of a 305-year-old union with England and the breakup of Britain. Seeking to tap into a cocktail of historical rivalry, opposing …

Mass job cuts at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are being determined by short-term cost-cutting, not long-term military needs, MPs have warned.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron gave the job of ruling on a multi-billion dollar takeover by News Corp to a minister he knew supported the deal, an inquiry heard on Thursday, reigniting accusations he was in hock to Rupert Murdoch. Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary who was handed the task of deciding whether …

LONDON (Reuters) - A Scotland Yard team is to fly to Libya to investigate the murder of police officer Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday. Fletcher, 25, died after being hit by a shot fired from the embassy during a demonstration …

David Cameron was dragged further into the row engulfing Jeremy Hunt today after another explosive evidence session at the Leveson inquiry.

Britain's economy shrunk more quickly than expected in the first quarter of 2011, in a setback to pundits who had doubted whether the UK really was suffering a double-dip recession.

MP Chris Huhne's partner Carina Trimingham has lost her privacy and harassment claim against Associated Newspapers.

Downing Street has bowed to ministerial opposition to its plans to legalise gay marriage by giving all MPs a free vote.

David Cameron has called for "decisive action soon" to resolve the ongoing eurozone crisis.

British Prime Minister David Cameron lashed out at fellow EU leaders Wednesday for reviving a proposal for a financial transaction tax, saying it was a bad idea and he would fight it all the way.

David Cameron has called for a "lasting solution" to the eurozone crisis after enduring 18 EU summits on the subject since he became Prime Minister.

HMRC has failed to collect £35 billion in tax, partly due to the fact it has laid off staff responsible for collecting the money.

David Cameron has lost his temper with Ed Balls after the shadow chancellor teased him to "chillax, and have another glass of wine".

David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed in the House of Commons over the controversial report commissioned by the Prime Minister which called for changes in the law to make it easier for businesses to sack staff.

Jeremy Paxman was in typical form when he appeared at the inquiry into media standards today, as he told Lord Leveson: "Your challenge will be to stop yourself becoming a total irrelevance."

David Cameron has set up a clash with Europe by signalling he will fight plans to force the UK to give prisoners voting rights. 

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing Britain's parliament on June 21 during her landmark first trip abroad in more than two decades, it was announced Wednesday.

David Cameron branded Ed Balls a "muttering idiot" in an angry outburst during PMQs today.

The coalition government will not solve Britain's fundamental problems because of its ideological divide, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned.

David Cameron and fellow EU leaders are to meet in Brussels under intense pressure to agree new economic growth plans ahead of a crucial Greek election vote.

Labour will back David Cameron if he chooses to fight an ultimatum issued by human rights judges giving Britain six months to change the law on prisoners' voting rights, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said.

Boris Johnson will sit down for his first mayoral question time today, as he faces the men and women who could make his life difficult in the four years ahead.

No 10 adviser Adrian Beecroft has launched a stinging attack on Vince Cable after his proposals to scrap unfair dismissal were vetoed by the Liberal Democrats.

LONDON (Reuters) - MP Tom Watson, an outspoken critic of Rupert Murdoch who played a prominent role in exposing phone hacking at his British newspaper business, said on Tuesday politicians had been scared of being targeted by the media mogul's tabloids. Watson, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said ministers and …