David Cameron: he emailed party members and acknowledged differences of opinion. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

British prime minister David Cameron sought yesterday to smooth relations with angry grassroot members of his Conservative Party, insisting he (...)

British prime minister David Cameron: Relations between the Tory party leadership and traditionalists have been strained by Mr Cameron’s support for gay marriage and the thorny issue of Europe. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Pressure continued to mount on the British Conservative party leadership yesterday over claims that an ally of British prime minister David Cam(...)

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt criticised British politicians for “a confusing spectacle” in which “legislators are doing the lobbying and companies are articulating the law as it stands”. Photograph: Reuters/Adam Hunger

International tax law “could almost certainly benefit from reform”, but it is politicians and not companies t(...)

Michael Finucane told a subcommittee of the House of Representatives committee on foreign affairs that security force collusion in his father’s murder was the “last great historical issue” for the British government in the Northern Ireland conflict. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

The son of slain Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has urged US congressmen to pressure the British gover(...)

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan rings the bell prior to an economic and financial affairs meeting yesterday, at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan yesterday defended Ireland’s corporate tax regime, following a meeting of EU finance minis(...)

Queen Elizabeth at the English Market in Cork on her 2011 visit. News of another visit next year gives ample opportunity too to get the bunting ready and prepare menus for the street parties. Photograph: Reuters

Sometime next year, confirmed the Taoiseach.It’s going to happen. That gives them plenty of time to hoover the carpet in Buckingham Palac(...)

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron during a joint news conference in the White House in Washington, yesterday. During the news conference, Mr Cameron said he would work to renegotiate Britain’s ties with the European Union before putting the question of membership in the EU to the voters. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times

David Cameron’s dramatic decision to publish a draft Bill on the EU referendum appeared to have failed to quell backbench rebellion over Europe(...)

Tricky manoeuvres on tax

Finance Minister Michael Noonan, as chairman of the European Union’s finance ministers during Ireland’s time as president of the European counc(...)

David Cameron’s European policy is becoming more and more uncertain as it encounters increasing concern about his pledge to hold a referendum o(...)

Britain’s education secretary Michael Gove during a broadcast of the Andrew Marr Show at the BBC studios in London yesterday

Conservative Party Eurosceptics were given a boost when two cabinet ministers publicly declared they would vote to leave the European Union on (...)

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