Arnie Graf’s visa status is embarrassing, but the real problem is he’s no good at his job

There’s previous little evidence the “community organising” guru is making any difference to Labour.

As the increasingly bitter war in Thirsk and Malton shows, it’s time we reformed deselections

The waters would be a lot less muddy if it was normal practice for party members to vote on each MP’s reselection.

Good luck to Daniel Critchlow, the 26-year-old vicar picked to fight Wythenshawe and Sale East

With the Lib Dem vote facing a squeeze and UKIP planning to target Labour voters, it’s all to play for.

The thinktank transfer window has seen some big strikers change hands

Find out who has moved where among the leading centre right organisations.

Could Patrick O’Flynn, iconoclastic journalist turned political spinner, be UKIP’s next leader?

The party is trying to professionalise while retaining its insurgent appeal. We take a look at the man tasked with the job.

Pinning Down Miliband: Energy and the environment

The price freeze grabbed headlines, but our new series shows Labour’s policies are in chaos.

Positive IMF forecasts are nice, but their economists do keep being proved wrong

Last Spring they were saying Ed Balls was right – can we rely on their accuracy now?

Jessica Lee MP steps down: 11 per cent of Tory women elected in 2010 have decided to leave Parliament

The Erewash MP’s departure raises serious question for the party on how to retain female MPs.

Yeo and McIntosh are trying very different experiments in securing reselection

One is in a very public war, and the other is working quietly – we’ll soon see which, if any, approach is successful.

What did Michael Fallon do in a past life to deserve Minister for Portsmouth?

He laudably steps up each time the Government calls on him – being Minister for Portsmouth is a funny way to thank him.

Ed Miliband’s big speech started by losing a billion pounds – and got worse

“Friends. Britain deserves better than this. The cost of living. The cost of friends. Britain. There will be a reckoning. Banks…”

Osborne backs a rise in the National Minimum Wage – and spikes Miliband’s big day

“When I look at the British economy, I see [it] expanding…I think Britain can afford a higher minimum wage.”

An overdue confession: the police crime statistics are fiddled

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that the police manipulate the figures.

John Denham accidentally attacks Labour’s fiscal policy

When is debt good? When a Labour Government says so.

The Right to Buy even appealed to Scargill – but which policies today have such a wide reach?

Evidence of the NUM leader’s hypocrisy is sweet – but it is also a spur to scrutinise today’s policy offering.