Archive for sarah teather
The coalition agreement: public health and schools
Welcome to the seventeenth in a series of posts going through the full coalition agreement section by section. You can read the full coalition document here.
The public health section is very brief and rather anomalous as a section on its own, though given the length of the NHS section splitting this area off makes some sense. There is [...]
YouGov puts Lib Dems second, all three parties within margin of error
Time to say, “Oh sod it” to the usual rule on The Voice of not reporting individual polls on headline voting intentions:
Conservative: 33%
Liberal Democrat: 30%
Labour: 28%
Others: 9%
Fieldwork: 15-16 April.
The last time the party was this high in the polls was after Sarah Teather’s victory in the Brent East by-election, when YouGov made it C32, [...]
Liberal Democrat manifesto by numbers
The Liberal Democrat manifesto by numbers:
9 different formats for the manifesto (hard copy, video, on screen, iPhone app etc.)
6 photos of Nick Clegg
5 pages of index
4 pages of detailed costsing
4 steps to a fairer Britain
3 photos of Vince Cable
0 mentions of chocolate
Sarah Teather welcomes people to the launch and then Danny Alexander introduces the manifesto [...]
Sour grapes, Guido?
Alas, poor Guido Fawkes. Blogger Paul Staines has posted so often, and with such utter certainty, claiming that there’s something dodgy about Sarah Teather’s expense claims that he seems just a mite reluctant to admit, “I was wrong”.
Which is why you won’t find him reporting today that Sarah Teather has been cleared by the Electoral [...]
Sarah Teather cleared, mystery of forged letters remains
The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has cleared Sarah Teather of allegations that she broke Parliamentary expense rules. You may remember those claims being enthusiastically hawked around by Tory Bear and others as if they were copper-bottomed fact; actually their claims were more like a rusty colander.
As the local newspaper reports of the Commissioner:
He discontinued the inquiry because [...]
Will £66,000 expenses claim sink Dawn Butler?
So asks Ross Lydall over in the Evening Standard:
How many voters are ready to turn against their MP over the expenses scandal? A fascinating battle in a hotly-contested north London constituency looks set to provide some answers.
On one side is Labour whip Dawn Butler. On the other is Lib-Dem MP Sarah Teather. They have been [...]
What does Glenda Jackson do?
My eye was caught by the figures put together by Ed Fordham, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Hampstead & Kilburn who is up against Glenda Jackson at the next general election. They are for various MPs in and around this new constituency.
Number of appearances in Hansard since 2005 general election, excluding votes
Lynne Featherstone 2,559
Sarah Teather [...]
Imagine having a well-paid job for life
So starts Nick Clegg’s comments in the latest Channel 4 Political Slot film from the party, featuring himself and Sarah Teather talking about changing our political system:
You may find the opening contains an electoral statistic which sounds rather familiar. I wonder if this post will make it to national TV next…
Independent Safeguarding Authority: kudos to Sarah Teather
Although some of the problems with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) are very much to do with how they’ve decided to go about doing their job (see my letter to Sir Roger Singleton for an example), some of the problems are to do with how the law has been written. There are some MPs who [...]
Good news from Brent as Labour agree to stop Sarah Teather smears
Sarah Teather and the Liberal Democrats have been taking legal action against Brent Central Labour Party following the appearance of a leaflet that falsely accused Sarah of receiving funding from questionable sources. When asked about the leaflet by one of the local newspapers, Labour MP Dawn Butler stood by its contents.
But in the face of [...]
