Outgoing Labour MP backing Respect candidate against former parliamentary colleague
I've only just clocked this story from the Birmingham Post earlier in the campaign – about the retiring Labour MP… Read more »
Nick Clegg tells the world: “I want to be Prime Minister”
Remember when David Steel told the Liberals in 1981 to "go back to your constituencies and prepare for government"? Well… Read more »
First the Liberal Democrats had a fake nurse in their election literature, now a fake policeman
Last week the Liberal Democrats in Wales got a researcher who had never been a nurse to dress up as… Read more »
Candidate calls Britain “the most mongrel country in the world” – yet the Left haven’t batted an eyelid
Do you remember the furore in 2001 when then Conservative MP John Townend (pictured left) accused Labour ministers of wanting… Read more »
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats, faith and the election
Was the man who asked an anti-Pope question during last week's election debate a civil servant? I ask because of… Read more »
Nick Clegg appears to rule out propping up a lame-duck Brown government as Paddy Ashdown says the Lib Dems would not go into coalition with the Tories
In what could potentially turn out to be one of the most important utterances of the campaign, Nick Clegg has… Read more »
Labour candidate exposed as having posed offensive messages online and been expelled from the Lib Dems for sending sexual emails
Nominations have already closed for the general election, else I doubt whether John Cowan would still be Labour's candidate challenging… Read more »
Is Ken Livingstone backing George Galloway in Poplar and Limehouse against the official Labour candidate?
Voters in the newly-drawn Poplar and Limehouse constituency have no fewer than ten candidates from which to choose come polling… Read more »
Gordon Brown relaunches Labour’s campaign… with an Elvis impersonator
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say. And the Labour campaign took a surreal turn this morning. The great… Read more »
Vince Cable on the ropes over the Lib Dem £2.4 million donation from a convicted fraudster
Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable was vigorously pursued by Jon Sopel – aided by Anne McElvoy and Fraser Nelson… Read more »
LibDem candidate gets party researcher to wear nurse’s uniform for counterfeit election photograph
The BBC reports that the Liberal Democrats' candidate for Cardiff North, John Dixon, used a Liberal Democrat party employee –… Read more »
Gotcha Gordon! You say you didn’t approve lies about Tory plans for pensioner benefits…
…but this is your own party’s website: Original here.Fast reaction Tory poster:
Labour mock disabled in new poster
Hat tip to ToryBear.
The media scrutiny of the Lib Dems continues – as the party dismisses Mandelson’s claims that Tory HQ is smearing Clegg as “utter nonsense”
As I noted at the beginning of the day, the media were making up for lost time this morning in… Read more »
Meet the honest Lib Dem candidate who explicitly advises voting Conservative if you want Labour out of government
Meet Tom Holvey, the Lib Dem candidate for the newly-drawn North Yorkshire constituency of Selby and Ainsty, where the Lib… Read more »