Nominations have already closed for the general election, else I doubt whether John Cowan would still be Labour's candidate challenging James Paice in South East Cambridgeshire this morning. Several days ago, the Cambridge News exposed the former glamour model manager as having been expelled from the Lib Dems in 2004 for sending “sexual emails to […]
Voters in the newly-drawn Poplar and Limehouse constituency have no fewer than ten candidates from which to choose come polling day. Among them is the excellent Conservative candidate, Tim Archer, the sitting Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town, Jim Fitzpatrick, and the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway. Above is a […]
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say. And the Labour campaign took a surreal turn this morning. The great relaunch of Labour's campaign took place this morning at an event in Corby – where Louise Bagshawe is poised to oust Labour MP Phil Hope – and involved Brown making a series of outrageous claims […]
Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable was vigorously pursued by Jon Sopel – aided by Anne McElvoy and Fraser Nelson – on the BBC's Campaign Show last night over the Lib Dems' failure to return the donation of £2.4 million they accepted from a convicted fraudster. Watch him squirm as he adopts what Sopel brands […]
The BBC reports that the Liberal Democrats' candidate for Cardiff North, John Dixon, used a Liberal Democrat party employee – who is not a nurse and never has been a nurse – to pose as a nurse with him for a photograph. Jonathan Morgan, the Conservative AM for Cardiff North, said: "They should apologise to […]
…but this is your own party’s website: Original here.Fast reaction Tory poster:
Hat tip to ToryBear.
As I noted at the beginning of the day, the media were making up for lost time this morning in terms of scrutinising the finer points of Lib Dem policy and looking at Nick Clegg's personal record when it comes to integrity. Yet Lord Mandelson was claiming at lunchtime on Radio 4 that the Conservative […]
Meet Tom Holvey, the Lib Dem candidate for the newly-drawn North Yorkshire constituency of Selby and Ainsty, where the Lib Dems notionally trail in a poor third place (and although the old Selby seat had a Labour MP, the new boundaries make it notionally Conservative, with the excellent Nigel Adams wearing the blue rosette). One […]
The story is in The Telegraph. Former sleazewatcher MP Martin Bell says that the Liberal Democrat leader has questions to answer. Tim Montgomerie
More in tomorrow's Independent.
In recent days Nick Clegg has suggested he brings something new to politics. But in his own use of expenses, his left-wing policies and his party's dirty campaigning he is not the change Britain needs. In fact he may not bring change at all. He may keep Gordon Brown in power for five more years. […]
“It is in Britain’s long-term interest to be part of the euro.” – Liberal Democrat manifesto In The Times, Anatole Kaletsky explains why this policy would be disastrous for Britain: "The main advantage for any nation of having its own currency, at least since the gradual abolition of the gold standard in the middle years […]
"Gordon Brown appealed yesterday for a "progressive alliance" of natural Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters to join forces to keep the Conservative Party out of power. In an interview with The Independent, Mr Brown said his new "mission" and "offer" to the British people was the creation of a "new politics" after the MPs' expenses […]
First we had Lord Adonis' piece in The Independent discussing LibLab similarities. On Saturday, in The Times, Alan Johnson was openly welcoming the idea of coalition government. And then this morning on the Today programme – and I don't have the verbatim words – Lord Mandelson ended his 8.10am interview with something like 'the only […]