So just when the negotiations between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems were reportedly yielding good progress, it turns out that the Lib Dems are also opening up talks with Labour, now that Gordon Brown is resigning. Is this a tactical move to seek further concessions from the ongoing negotiations with the Conservatives? We'll have […]
Brown has just made a statement on the steps of Downing Street indicating his intention to resign. He said he would instruct his party to begin proceedings for a leadership contest for the Labour Party, aiming to have the position filled by their conference in October. He said: "I will play no part in that […]
Yesterday came the first calls from Labour MP for Gordon Brown to quit. Over the last 24 hours, more Labour MPs have been popping their heads above the parapet to tell Gordon brown through the media that the game is up. Here;s what three former ministers have had to say": Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley […]
The first Labour MP to put his head above the parapet and call on Gordon Brown to quit was John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw. The BBC reports him as saying: "Gordon Brown has had a good run and whilst he was an excellent chancellor he has been seen as a poor prime minister who is […]
The crowd demanding 'fair votes' has just been addressed by Nick Clegg. The Liberal Democrat leader received a petition from 20,000 voters in support of electoral reform. The protest illustrated the difficult position facing Mr Clegg. If he doesn't secure a promise from Mr Cameron on electoral reform he'll face a backlash from his base. […]
Gerry Sutcilffe has been Labour MP for Bradford South since 1994 and he is currently the sports minister. Tomorrow he is defending a notional majority of 8,444, which would fall on a swing of less than 12% to the Conservatives. Yet I am alerted to a message he posted on Twitter earlier in the campaign […]
The BBC has more details of the story: "A man believed to a volunteer for the Liberal Democrats has been arrested by police investigating vandalism and theft of Conservative election posters. The 38-year-old from Eastbourne, East Sussex, is being held by Sussex Police on suspicion of theft and harassment. He surrendered himself to officers in […]
Today has seen the publication of the donations to political parties for the first quarter of this year, and they show Labour being even more reliant than ever on the unions for cash: Between Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 (there was a 10% drop in the number of individual donors to Labour (88 down to […]
Today's South Wales Echo carries a story about how a Labour councillor in the Cardiff West constituency allegedly threatened a shopkeeper with a boycott by Labour members if he refused to display the party's leaflets on his counter. Cllr Ramesh Patel has said that he did ask hardware store owner Russell Cotty to display the […]
An astounding interview in the latest edition of the Lynn News – a local paper in King's Lynn – given by the Labour candidate for the local Norfolk North West seat, Manish Sood. In all candour, he says: "I believe Gordon Brown has been the worst Prime Minister we have had in this country. It […]
There’s also this video… Last Thursday, on Question Time, Vince Cable said he doesn’t know where the figure of 600,000 people being eligible for the LibDem amnesty comes from… it comes from Nick Clegg as the video reveals! Tim Montgomerie
Tory HQ has put together this website which exposes the utter inconsistency and flip-flopping of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems over whether or not they would back Gordon Brown and Labour in the event of a hung parliament. This is of course all part of the pushing of the point that you can only […]
Earlier in the campaign, SNP First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, released this video trying to make political capital out of the MPs' expenses scandal. However, yesterday came confirmation from Salmond – who has just stepped down from Westminster to concentrate on his duties at Holyrood – that he is taking the £65,000 redundancy pay-off […]
This is the latest betting from Ladbrokes: David Miliband 7/4 Ed Miliband 5/1 Alan Johnson 6/1 Harriet Harman 8/1 Peter Mandelson 10/1 Alistair Darling 12/1 Ed Balls 14/1 Jon Cruddas 14/1 Jack Straw 25/1 John Denham 25/1 Andy Burnham 25/1 Hilary Benn 33/1 Yvette Cooper 33/1 Tim Montgomerie
In tomorrow's Mail on Sunday (no link yet) the lady slurred by Gordon Brown – Mrs Gillian Duffy – breaks her silence. She reveals that the Prime Minister calling her "that woman" offended her as much as her calling her "bigoted". "Why couldn't he have said, "that lady?",' she says.' She confirms that she ripped […]