David Cameron

Gordon Brown has left office and few in the financial services industry will lament his departure.

Hastily introduced banking industry regulation risks precipitating a second credit crunch, HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan has warned.

Both former shadow chancellors George Osborne and Vince Cable have been given positions in the new coalition cabinet.

Gordon Brown yesterday announced his resignation as Prime Minister - but he will not be stepping down for at least five months. "Extraordinary" says the Times, "Sordid" says the Telegraph...

The best outcome from today's hung parliament election result would be a pact or coalition between David Cameron's Conservatives and Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, IFAs say.

A slight relief for Rupert Murdoch's two national newspapers The Sun and The Times as their 2am editions report that the exit polls put the Conservatives as the largest party predicting 305 seats for David Cameron.

Newspapers gripped with Election fever have Cameron's name splashed over (almost all) the front pages, as polling day 2010 kicks-off.

The verdict? It is over for Gordon Brown...

Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have lurched into different directions over the timetable and rate of a levy on Britain's banks.

David Cameron appeared to have come out top in the last and most crucial of the TV leaders' debates in which he accused Labour of failing to significantly improve the country's economy.