First Minister for Wales Carwyn Jones, right, in the cab of a refuse lorry with Brian Moylan at New Inn, near Pontypool. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/D Legakis Photography / Athena Picture Agency Bryan Moylan spent hours scrubbing, vacuuming and spraying his refuse truck in preparation for his VIP passenger. “But it was worth it to put [...]

Michael Gove had said that the scale of demand for academies required the government to rush through legislation. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Michael Gove, the education secretary, faced renewed attacks today when it emerged that only 153 schools had applied to become academies – despite his claims that more than 1,000 had done so. Gove [...]

A Trident submarine makes it’s way out from Faslane naval base. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images George Osborne delivered a rebuke to the defence secretary, Liam Fox, when he declared that the costs of Britain’s new Trident nuclear deterrent will come from the main defence budget. In a sign of the Tory’s leadership’s growing impatience [...]