MPs, in the wake of discgate, are calling for criminal sanctions for those who mishandle personal information. Westmonster is confident that the lack of a law is the real problem, not that "Gary" at HMRC is taking his laptop home to play Second Life. The Independent publishes poll averages,… read more…

BONG! As the members start casting their votes, John Redwood discovers something shocking: clear, er, yellow water between the two Lib Dem leadership contenders. Well, who'da thunk it? BONG! Diskgate continues, as copies of emails from HMRC are released to the press hounds. The spin now is that it was budgetary… read more…

As the search for the Disk of Doom continues, the Mail reports on the Lord of the Flies-esque scenes in HM Revenue and Customs: The staff wear tracksuit bottoms, baseball caps and scruffy T shirts, many do not have a GCSE and their training is described as "a joke". Somebody… read more…

Newsreader: Good afternoon and welcome to Westmonster. Our top story this afternoon: angry scenes in the Commons at Prime Minister's Questions, as David Cameron accuses the Prime Minister of presiding over "systemic failure" within the HMRC following the revelation that the personal and financial data of millions of children and families has been lost.… read more…

Well, it wasn't the unmitigated disaster for the Gord that it could have been: Brown highlighted a review that Would Solve Everyone's Problems, Cameron (who was a little off-form) hammered his questions out all in one go and raised the viability of ID cards in the wake of the fiasco,… read more…

BONG! As part of its mission to establish a record for the largest number of emergency statements in the shortest amount of time (three in the past week, by our reckoning), the Government reveals that Her Maj's Revenue and Customs lost the records of 25 million individuals in the, er,… read more…