The Harlow MP offers a solution to a complaint made by some of his fellow Conservative backbenchers.
Finally, the parties are beginning to change the way they start conversations with potential voters.
Danny Alexander would rather have his cold, blood-spattered, lifeless body hauled off to the morgue than see a cut in the top rate of tax
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee tells Andrew Gimson that David Cameron has agreed to a written protocol of which such a vote will be a part.
Jo’s, that is – not Boris’s. The Head of the Policy Unit will have a big hand in the plan for the 2015 election to be confirmed today.
There will be lots of issues at the next election – the Government's record on the economy, welfare reform and public services, the presidential contest between David Cameron and Ed Miliband, the EU in/out referendum (especially if Labour is not offering one.) However, we can now see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. LibDem bloggers Stephen Tall and Mark Pack, and Mike Smithson of Political Betting, raised some solid objections to the Coalition breaking up some six months before the 2015 general election – which I recommended on this site earlier this week. (Mike suggested that I should see "This House", the […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. David Cameron gave Conservative MPs "a very strong indication" at the recent Parliamentary Party meeting that he wants to introduce legislation before 2015 for his planned EU referendum after the next election. Or so the Spectator's Isabel Hardman reported recently. But the Prime Minister knows as well as anyone […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I suspect that Chris Grayling would like Britain to leave the ECHR. I have no evidence whatsoever for this guess, but it's consistent with the carefully-chosen words he used on the matter when I interviewed him for this site last year. This morning, he writes in the Daily Mail […]
By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter It is true the Lib Dems often act as a drag on this Government. Yet the Government has still been surprisingly radical in the scale of its reform programme. We are just over the half way point of this Parliament and so we can expect still more to be achieved. […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The intention had always been that, at some point mid-Parliament, these committees would "go live" – in other words, start receiving submissions about what should be in the next manifesto. Next, those committees will consider what they've received. And finally, they will draw up manifesto recommendations, which will be […]
Not only would it be another burden on the taxpayer, it wouldn’t add anything of use to the public debate.