Conservative leader David Cameron warned today that Labour has created a ‘control state’ with sweeping powers to intrude into people’s private lives. Officials now had more than 1,000 reasons to knock on people’s doors and demand to enter their home, he said. That was more like a ‘foreign dictatorship or bygone age’ than a modern democracy. Mr Cameron also attacked... 

Tory and Labour-appointed EU commissioners who leave their posts receive more than £1 million each in the form of pensions and benefits, according to the Open Europe think tank. “European commissioners leaving office later this year will receive more than £1 million (€1.1 million) each in pension payments and so-called ‘transitional’ and ‘resettlement’ allowances,” Open Europe has...