Labour and Lib Dem candidates refuse to allow election debate to be filmed and posted online
It has been previously suggested that we are about to enjoy Britain's first "YouTube election" with both ease of access… Read more »
Senior Downing Street advisor is fully financed by Unite
She has a desk in 10 Downing Street. She is part of the Prime Minister's policy development unit. She has… Read more »
Ed Miliband rebuked by Advertising Standards Authority for exaggerating risks of climate change
The ASA has banned two press adverts that used nursery rhymes to scare people about the effects of climate change…. Read more »
Alan Johnson humiliated by u-turn on dog tax
A week ago the Home Secretary Alan Johnson was openly discussing the possibility of introducing compulsory insurance for all dogs…. Read more »
Michael Gove lists the ways in which Labour has rewarded its union paymasters
The poster above will appear on poster sites across London over the next 48 hours. Click on it to enlarge…. Read more »
Labour draft ‘five guarantees’ to voters
The Times reports on the five pledges that Labour hopes to put at the heart of its re-election bid: On… Read more »
Union video warns that 999 calls will go unanswered if there are public spending cuts
The video is part of a Unison campaign website. With unions providing more than 60% of Labour funding they are… Read more »
Alistair Darling contradicts his deputy on tax
On Friday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, was quoted as ruling out tax rises if Labour were re-elected…. Read more »
Gordon Brown’s words are cold comfort for the mother of the unequipped solder killed in Afghanistan and the son of the 86-year-old woman who died in her local hospital
BBC1's Politics Show is on at 2.15pm today and features a recording of Gordon Brown being challenged by an audience… Read more »
Liberal Democrat bloggers have a nerve claiming their MPs are the most liberal and least authoritarian in the Commons
Shane Frith is director of the classical-liberal think-tank Progressive Vision and a founding Executive member of Progressive Conservatives. Here he… Read more »
Labour to announce plans to abolish House of Lords and replace it with a 300-member fully elected second chamber
Tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph splashes on the news that Justice Secretary Jack Straw is about to announce plans to replace the… Read more »
Ms Toynbee is “deeply alarmed” at the prospect of Labour pledging not to raise tax
Yesterday I blogged about Treasury Chief Secretary Liam Byrne's statement that Labour would not introduce any new tax rises if… | 26 comments
Three unions have given £25 million to Labour – and have now secured more than 100 parliamentary candidacies
We noted a couple of days ago how an increasing number of union figures are securing Labour candidacies for the… Read more »
Treasury Minister claims there would be “no new tax rises” if Labour were re-elected
The Telegraph today splashes on news that Liam Byrne, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has ruled out further tax… Read more »
Labour are deemed as incompetent and untrustworthy now as John Major’s Government was prior to the 1997 general election
Political Betting has this afternoon highlighted new research by Jane Green and Will Jennings of Manchester University looking at a… Read more »