Richard Cook pictured with the Chinook helicopter he was piloting when it crashed into the Mull of Kintyre. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell (collect)/taken from picture library Nick Clegg today announced a new independent legal inquiry into the 1994 Mull of Kintyre helicopter disaster that killed 29 people including top intelligence and anti-terrorist officers. The deputy prime [...]

David Cameron and his father Ian in April 2010. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA David Cameron is flying to France today to be with his parents after his father, Ian, suffered a stroke on holiday. Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, will fill in for Cameron at prime minister’s questions in the Commons at noon. Cameron has [...]

Men of power: Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, right, and David Cameron in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting on 7 September 2010. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/PA When Liberal Democrat ministers are challenged about gloomy opinion polls, the appointment of some unsavoury Tory to public office, or dire predictions about the fate of a cherished party policy, [...]

David Cameron held the cabinet meeting to gage the progress being made in departments’ plans to cut spending by 25%. Photograph: Andrew Winning/AP David Cameron today returned to work after his paternity leave to chair a cabinet meeting looking at progress being made in government departments’ plans to cut spending by 25% over the next [...]