Brown unveils five doorstep promises… and five attacks on the Conservatives
The Independent previews five pledge card-style pledges and scare stories that Labour strategists hope will get the Labour Party moving… Read more »
Millions of pounds of the DfID aid budget has been granted to the Trades Union Congress
6.15pm update: Responding to the issues raised below, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, has told ConservativeHome:… Read more »
Why did it take 48 days for the Government to proscribe Islam4UK after David Cameron raised the issue at PMQs?
This morning came news that Home Secretary Alan Johnson is proscribing Islam4UK and its associated cover organisations. And about time… Read more »
Lib Dem parliamentary candidate forced to resign after pressure from Tory opponent over sexually gratuitous smears
Last week we highlighted the activities of Greg Stone, the Lib Dem candidate for Newcastle-upon-Tyne East. He had been using… Read more »
Labour dirty tricksters are suspected of circulating an anonymous letter purporting to come from a Tory MP
Last June ConHome reproduced this anonymous letter being circulated among Conservative MPs, purporting to come from a colleague complaining about… Read more »
Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill puts her on collision course with all major religions
The Christian campaigning charity CARE has issued a new report today to coincide with the Committee Stage in the Lords… Read more »
Labour’s mismanagement of big state projects has cost £22bn
Working with Taxpayers' Alliance research this morning's Independent on Sunday has published the extent to which the Labour government has… Read more »
Former General Secretary of the Labour Party makes sensational attacks on Gordon Brown
A new book by Peter Watt, former General Secretary of the Labour Party, paints a devastating picture of Gordon Brown…. Read more »
The vast majority want higher taxation of the rich, says Toynbee in rebuke to Mandelson
Polly Toynbee in The Guardian: "Mandelson is profoundly wrong and out of date to accuse others of "class war". The… Read more »
Government forced to instruct councils to reduce gritting in order to preserve stocks
Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities, Caroline Spelman, warned on ConservativeHome this morning that the Government was… Read more »
The public are divided as to whether ditching Brown would help Labour – but the vast majority agree there is no obvious successor anyway
That's according to the findings of a ComRes poll for the BBC's Daily Politics programme. The pollster asked the following… Read more »
Harriet Harman fined £350 after pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention
Sky News are reporting that Labour deputy leader and Leader of the Commons Harriet Harman has pleaded guilty to driving… Read more »
“Serial bottler” David Miliband’s Labour leadership hopes in tatters after dithering during failed coup
As the the papers conduct a post mortem on Wednesday's failed coup against Gordon Brown, there is general agreement that… Read more »
Gordon Brown misled the Commons yesterday after lifting unreliable material from a Left-wing blog
At yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions, Gordon Brown alleged that David Cameron had replied to the question "Are you committed to… Read more »
The SnowStorm plotters wounded Brown but failed to kill
The wounds are all over this morning's newspapers: Steve Richards' verdict in The Independent: "The events of yesterday morning are… Read more »