LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s long-delayed inquest into the death by radioactive poisoning of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko could be abandoned after the coroner partly upheld a British government request to withhold crucial evidence.

Robert Owen, a senior judge acting as coroner, said on Friday keeping some of the evidence secret would make it impossible to hold a “full, fair and fearless inquiry” into the death of the vocal critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron ordered rebellious MPs on Thursday to back his plan for a law guaranteeing a vote on Britain’s European Union membership as he sought shore up his party, his leadership and the coalition.

Conservative rebels have been pushing him to take a hard line on Europe, resurrecting party splits that contributed to the downfall of former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1990s. An election is due in 2015.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron ordered rebellious lawmakers on Thursday to back his plan for a law guaranteeing a vote on Britain’s European Union membership as he sought shore up his party, his leadership and the coalition.

Conservative rebels have been pushing him to take a hard line on Europe, resurrecting party splits that contributed to the downfall of former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1990s. An election is due in 2015.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament on Wednesday when a third of his Conservative lawmakers voted against him in protest at his stance on Britain’s membership of the European Union.

Though the revolt was defeated, the rebellion could undermine Cameron’s leadership, as scores of his own party’s lawmakers took the highly unusual step of voting to criticize his government’s legislative plans, a week after they were first put before parliament.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron faces a humiliating challenge to his authority on Wednesday when scores of rebels in his ruling party will attack him in parliament over his stance on Britain’s membership of the European Union.

In a further blow to Cameron’s leadership, up to 100 Conservative MPs will take the highly unusual step of voting to criticise his government’s legislative plans, a week after they were first put before parliament.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron faces a humiliating challenge to his authority on Wednesday when scores of rebels in his ruling party will attack him in parliament over his stance on Britain’s membership of the European Union.

In a further blow to Cameron’s leadership, up to 100 Conservative lawmakers will take the highly unusual step of voting to criticize his government’s legislative plans, a week after they were first put before parliament.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should leave the European Union because Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to claw back powers from Brussels is doomed, former finance minister Nigel Lawson said on Monday.

Lawson’s intervention piles pressure on Cameron just days after his Conservative Party was shaken in local elections by the surging anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP).

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should leave the European Union because Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to claw back powers from Brussels is doomed, former chancellor Nigel Lawson said on Monday.

Lawson’s intervention piles pressure on Cameron just days after his Conservative Party was shaken in local elections by the surging anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP).

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron
won the support of 500 business leaders on Monday in his
campaign to renegotiate Britain’s ties with the European Union,
a political gamble that has infuriated some of the bloc’s
biggest members.

Business for Britain, a new lobby group, said it backed
Cameron’s plan to repatriate powers from Brussels and hold a
referendum on Britain’s EU membership, provided his Conservative
Party wins the next election.

LONDON (Reuters) – London stages its biggest political funeral in almost half a century on Wednesday when Britain’s governing elite join the Queen and global leaders to bid farewell to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the “Iron Lady”.

In an event comparable to that of Winston Churchill’s funeral in 1965, Thatcher’s coffin will be carried atop a horse-drawn gun carriage through streets lined with admirers, and some detractors, from parliament to the city’s most famous cathedral.