Jacob Rees-Mogg tells PoliticsHome the high court ruling that Bideford Council's pre-meeting prayer is unlawful is 'peculiar'.

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Sir Menzies Campbell says that French and American domestic politics is playing a role in the ISAF withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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MPs question the verdict of the High Court that prayers before Bideford Council rulings are 'not lawful'.

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Eric Pickles says the ruling that Bideford Council's pre-meeting prayers are 'not lawful' is 'surprising and disappointing'.

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Conservative MP Mark Reckless attacks the European Court of Human Rights as 'no longer a serious or credible' institution.

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Baroness Royall tells the BBC that she believes it will be Conservative peers who will block moves to reform the House of Lords.

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Labour MP Chris Bryant tells PoliticsHome that the high court ruling that Bideford Council's prayers are not lawful is 'utterly preposterous'.

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Ken Livingstone says that today's delays on the London Underground are 'completely unacceptable'.

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UKIP says that the ruling of prayers at council meetings as illegal 'makes a mockery' of the Government's localism agenda.

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The Universtiy and Colleges Union accuses the Government of a 'tax' on the lowest paid students.

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The Labour Party announces that it is to examine class actions proposals for consumer redress.

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Lloyds Banking Group releases figures showing it exceeded its lending targets to small businesses in 2011, approving £12.5bn in loans.

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Responding to ConservativeHome's call to drop the NHS Bill, Andy Burnham says the Prime Minister is looking 'dangerously isloated'.

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A leading City policy chief warns that financial services are in a 'perfect storm'.

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Alan Duncan defends the controversial Health and Social Care Bill, saying he is 'sure' it will be passed in the House of Commons.

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Barclays Bank announces pre-tax profits of £5.9bn for 2011.

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Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's Major Projects Report 2011 on Defence, Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy says that David Cameron has 'lost his credibility on defence'.

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The Cabinet Office announces plans to allows taxpayers to get 'more for their money on construction projects'.

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The Public Accoutns Committee releases its report into Major Projects at the Ministry of Defence.

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Read Ivan Lewis' speech to the World Wildlife Fund seminar 'Navigating the perfect storm: the international challenge of food, water and energy security'.

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On Question Time, Philip Hammond rules out the possibility of the UK defying the European Court of Human Rights over the deportation of Abu Qatada.

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Read in full Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis' keynote speech on resource Security

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The latest YouGov/Sun results find the Conservatives on 38%, Labour on 41%, and Liberal Democrats on 9%.

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The Guardian reports that the Conservative Home website, urged on by three members of the Cabinet, will tomorrow criticise the Government's NHS reforms.

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Sir Richard Lambert, the former head of the CBI, says the Bank of England did the 'right thing' by releasing £50bn of quantitative easing.

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The Greek Culture minister Pavlos Geroulanos admits it will be 'very difficult' to sell the latest austerity measures to the Greek people.

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The head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw denies his drive for excellence in schools would lead to head teachers being sacked, but warns 'leadership is absolutely key'.

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Ros Altmann, the head of Saga, criticises quantitative easing, saying it made old people 'the sacrificial lambs for this policy'.

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William Hague condemns President Assad as a 'mass murderer' due to the violence in Syria.

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Read the statement from Dr James Smith, the chairman of The Holocaust Centre, about his recent trip to Poland where he accompanied Tory MP Aidan Burley.

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Responding to Ed Miliband's speech on responsible capitalism, Conservative MP Matthew Hancock accuses the Labour leader of 'trying to create an anti-business culture'.

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Read the full transcript of Ed Miliband's speech to the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute here.

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Nick Clegg has met with former Russian prisoner Marina Khodorkovskaya, and says 'Russia needs to demonstrate progress' towards tackling corruption.

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William Hague says the Government is 'intensifying' its contact with the Syrian opposition.

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MEP Edward McMillan-Scott says that the deal struck by Greek coalition leaders is a key step towards solving the Euro crisis.

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Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor and editor-in-chief of the Mail group titles, flatly denies that phone hacking occurred at Associated Newspapers.

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Downing Street confirms that the Prime Minister has spoken to King Abdullah of Jordan this afternoon about Abu Qatada.

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Unite the trade union announces that it is to ballot its members on the Government's NHS pensions offer.

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Jessica Morden says David Cameron's comments on tax breaks for domestic workers show 'how out of touch David Cameron is about the pressures facing women in this country'.

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The Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce John Longworth says his organisation gives a 'qualified' welcome to the Bank of England's decision to release extra quantitative easing today.

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Foreign Secretary raises concern over the situation in the Maldives.

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Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has announced Labour will force a vote on February 22nd, calling on the Government to publish their NHS reforms risk assesment.

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Labour's Michael Dugher accuses the Government of 'freezing out' small and medium-sized businesses from public contracts.

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Caroline Lucas MP and Richard Werner, the economist who invented Quantative Easing, call for the Bank of England to invest money created by QE into green projects.

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Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint says Ed Davey 'flunked the opportunity' to use his appointment to Energy Secretary to change course on the Government's cuts to solar feed-in tariffs.

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Ahead of his meeting with Alex Salmond on Monday, Scottish Secretary Michael Moore calls on the Scottish National Party to back a 'Section 30 order', which would devolve powers to Holyrood, as the preferred route for a referendum on Scottish independence.

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