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Posts Tagged: Douglas Alexander MP

Ruth Davidson MSP: While Labour struggle for relevance, we Conservatives offer a bulwark against the SNP

Launching her new ConservativeHome column, the Scottish Conservative and Unionist leader makes an appeal to middle ground voters.

By Ruth Davidson MSP | 27 October 2015 | 37 comments

Election Sketch: Why the Scots are so keen to register a massive protest vote against Labour

Labour voters in Douglas Alexander’s seat are furious at being treated as “a second-class nation” and “bullied” during the referendum.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 May 2015 | 28 comments

Lord Ashcroft: My latest poll of marginals shows Jim Murphy losing his seat to the SNP

Nicola Sturgeon’s party would win seven out of these eight seats on these figures. Douglas Alexander, Charles Kennedy, Jo Swinson – all would be out of the Commons.

By Lord Ashcroft | 17 April 2015 | 25 comments

Lady Berridge: We must champion the freedom to change one’s beliefs about religion

This covers the expression of views, proselytisation (both for faiths and atheistic views), and a robust protection of the freedom to convert, both at home and abroad.

By Lady Berridge | 7 February 2015 | 161 comments

Iain Dale: No, Balls isn’t anti-business. Indeed, he understands business.

Plus: Lord Ashcroft’s Scotland poll – I must revise my predictions. Abuse in Rotherham. An upset in Sheffield? My drivetime success. And: in memoriam, Martin Gilbert.

By Iain Dale | 6 February 2015 | 78 comments

Looking at Labour 1) The Shadow Cabinet

The average member of Miliband’s team has spent just four and a half years working in the private sector. A quarter have no private sector experience at all.

By Mark Wallace | 22 January 2015 | 34 comments

LabServative! That Blue-Red Coalition. Cabinet list in full.

Includes five jobshare posts, and returns to the front bench for Ken Clarke, Liam Fox, Tom Watson…and Emily Thornberry.

By Paul Goodman | 5 January 2015 | 22 comments

Could Labour steal a march on the Conservatives over religious freedom?

Douglas Alexander is right to urge the creation of a Government envoy for it.

By Paul Goodman | 21 December 2014 | 75 comments

Iain Dale: The best and worst Conservative leaders. Who do you nominate?

Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.

By Iain Dale | 7 November 2014 | 76 comments

Stuart Coster: Heroes and Zeroes of the EU Referendum Bill

Bob Neil re-presents it for Second Reading today. Here are extracts from its Second Reading last time round

By Stuart Coster | 17 October 2014 | 8 comments

WATCH: Douglas Alexander’s General Election Freudian slip

Whose future are Labour interested in? Over to their campaign ‘guru’…

By Mark Wallace | 24 September 2014 | 6 comments

After the Wharton Bill on Europe, a Wharton Vote on England?

Downing Street is mulling a means of putting Labour on the spot. How inspiring it would be to see evidence that it’s more than a tactical wheeze.

By Paul Goodman | 21 September 2014 | 176 comments

50 Questions if Scotland votes Yes

We hope and believe that No will win, and that these inquiries will come to nothing. But it is necessary to put them.

By Paul Goodman | 8 September 2014 | 179 comments

The new Scottish question: would a close victory be good enough for Better Together?

Surely it would surpass the narrow defeat suggested by today’s YouGov poll. But it wouldn’t be without problems for Unionist politicians.

By Peter Hoskin | 7 September 2014 | 138 comments

God help the Union as Douglas Alexander, Labour’s blunderkind, gets the reins of Better Together

Sure, Alistair Darling might have lacked punch – but why replace him with a copper-bottomed disaster?

By Mark Wallace | 13 May 2014 | 63 comments

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