Archive for Opposition watch
Executive editor and news editor quit paper in storm over election smears
Trial by Jeory has the story from the contest to be Mayor of Tower Hamlets: [Expelled Labour member turned independent] Lutfur Rahman’s campaign does seem to have galvanised a section of the Tower Hamlets community and many, if not most, are certainly very angry young people who are fuelled by a fair degree of hatred. [...]
Ed Miliband campaign chief broke rules for MPs
So reports Paul Waugh in the Evening Standard: Ed Miliband’s campaign chief breached House of Commons rules by sending a Parliamentary letter to voters during the general election campaign, anti-sleaze watchdogs have found… Mr Khan was reported to the watchdog after it emerged that he had sent a mailshot using Commons notepaper and pre-paid envelopes [...]
Police question David Mundell over election expenses
We have previously reported on Conservative MP David Mundell's admission that he exceeded the election expense limit in this year's election. His expense return showed him within the limit but wrongly classified one bill. A correct return would have shown him over the limit.
“Wicked and malicious” – Hazel Blears on what went on under Labour
Saying something highly uncomplimentary about your own party is one thing. Saying it, denying it and then having a recording surface of you saying it is rather different though. Step forward, Hazel Blears and her “wicked and malicious” comm...
Controversy hits Lutfur Rahman’s Tower Hamlets campaign film
The Tower Hamlets Mayoral election campaign continues to do its best to beat political fiction for implausible twists, witness the appearance and then disappearance of a disgraced ex-Assistant Chief Executive in Lutfur Rahman’s election film as recounted on Harry’s Place. The Liberal Democrat candidate is John Griffiths, who you can find on Facebook and Twitter [...]
Labour’s Tower Hamlets selection nightmare
You select a candidate in a keenly contested election. You then receive complaints about how the contest was run. So you suspend the candidate and, er…, don’t rush through an investigation or recount the votes to find a new winner or put the runner-up in post but instead your national committee hands the candidature to someone [...]
Nigel Waterson receives police apology
An update on one of the stories mentioned in our previous coverage of Nigel Waterson, the now former Tory MP for Eastbourne. As ConservativeHome reports: It was reported in 2008 that Nigel Waterson, then the Conservative MP for Eastbourne, had been arrested for allegedly assaulting his teenage children. The Metropolitan Police has now apologised to [...]
Worth a second outing: perhaps Gordon Brown should have listened to his own warning?
Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...]
Knowsley Council refuses to answer questions over its £250,000+ payments for Labour Conference
Knowsley Council has stonewalled questions as to why it is paying for an exhibition stall at this autumn’s Labour Party conference despite not appearing at any other party conferences. Knowsley Council leader Ron Round has even hinted that it may continue to pay for stalls at future Labour Party conferences. This year’s autumn Labour conference [...]
Tory donor, tax affairs, Oakeshott on the case: some things haven’t changed
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott is clearly not put off by coalition from his pursuit of Tory donors and their tax statuses. Today it is Jon Wood, whose tax affairs have been in the papers with Lord Oakeshott saying, “Now is the time to take...
