These five deaths prove we have to leave Afghanistan

THE treacherous killing of five British soldiers inside their Shin Kalay base in Helmand by a “rogue” policeman is bitter proof of the failure of our Afghan war. After eight years, 229 British lives and billions spent we are still unable to distinguish friend from foe. But this tragedy highlights a wider truth.

New MPs are likely to be bright and hard-working

FEW spectacles are so gruesome as the sight of MPs whining about having their expenses curtailed. But an entirely predictable chorus of complaint has arisen in the wake of the report into cleaning up the abused allowance system.

Cameron plots a new way forward for Eurosceptics