Political Betting has this afternoon highlighted new research by Jane Green and Will Jennings of Manchester University looking at a… Read more »
There is a letter in the Guardian this morning criticising Conservative plans to cut public spending and calling for another… | 14 comments
The Lib Dem leader has given an interview to today's Independent in which he sets out the four demands which… Read more »
On previous occasions we've noted the looming mass retirement of Blairite Labour MPs from the Commons. Yesterday's Times highlighted how… Read more »
Today's Sun accuses Labour of dithering and incompetence over the killer of Jamie Bulger, Jon Venables. Today's front page of… Read more »
Ed Balls is fighting the newly-drawn Morley and Outwood constituency at the general election, after his existing Normanton seat was… Read more »
A fortnight ago William Hague compared Labour to a defeated army that poisoned the wells of the country it was… Read more »
That great custodian of the nation's morality, Lord Mandelson, has today warned that Lord Ashcroft has David Cameron "by the… Read more »
This from Ian Kirby, the News of the World's Political Editor (my emphasis): "A highly confidential operation being run by… Read more »
In his Saturday column Peter Oborne lists three reasons why Nick Clegg is likely to manoeuvre his party into a… Read more »
2.45pm: This graph (hat tip to Burning our Money) gets closest to the truth about Labour's record on defence spending… Read more »
Gordon Brown spent most of today giving evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry. Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox was following him… Read more »
Lord Paul is a Labour peer, non-domiciled for tax purposes, who was inexplicably appointed a Privy Councillor last year. He… Read more »
Last September, Richard Balfe, the one-time Labour MEP who joined the Conservatives in 2002 wrote here about the "very constructive… Read more »
BBC report. "Mr Cameron paid tribute to former Labour leader Michael Foot, who died today, saying he was “a brilliant… Read more »