Archive for stephen gilbert

Housing: six things that could be done

1 November 2011 , , , , , , , , , ,
As Tim Leunig pointed out last week, housing plays an important role in most people’s concept of social mobility, a point highlighted in Stephen Gilbert’s piece over the summer recounting his own personal circumstances: Last year I was probably the only MP to be elected while still living with my parents. Of course, I’d moved [...]
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Labour paid private health firms £3 for every £2 of London healthcare they provided

3 April 2011 , ,
Liberal Democrat MP (and former Haringey councillor) Stephen Gilbert has been doing some good digging into the way Labour wasted money with over-generous and badly worded contracts between the health service and private health providers. The shocking figures for London are that although private firms were paid £63.4 million they only provided £41.5 million worth [...]

Deputy Leadership contest latest: Huhne backs Farron

2 June 2010 , , , , , ,
A news release from the Tim Farron campaign says: Tim Farron today announced that Secretary of State for DECC, Chris Huhne, will be supporting Tim’s candidacy for Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Mr Huhne’s support comes on the same day as candidates for Deputy Leader put forward their nominating signatures to the Parliamentary Party. Other MPs [...]

Conservative candidate Caroline Righton ‘goes to ground’

14 April 2010 , , ,
Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate in St Austell & Newquay who was previously implicated in the faking of a message that smeared her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert, has now turned all elusive again: Caroline Righton, is one of only 7 candidates across the whole south west not to respond to a BBC request to [...]

Could Cameron cost Tories the West?

21 January 2010 , , ,
That’s the question posted by the Western Morning News’s London editor, Matt Chorley: CONSERVATIVE high command make no secret of the importance of the Westcountry to their hopes of winning the general election, but there seems to be growing unease in the region about the impact (negative or non-existent) their leader is having on voters… Speaking to [...]

Your Caroline Righton reader

29 October 2009 , ,
On Sunday Stephen blogged about the behaviour of Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate for St Austell & Newquay, whose campaign is being accused of faking a message about her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert, in a botched smear attempt. The story has also been taken up on quite a few other Lib Dem blogs so, bearing [...]

Caroline Righton accused of smearing Lib Dem with fake message

28 October 2009 ,
Matt Davies has the story about how Tory candidate Caroline Righton looks to have tried to smear her Lib Dem opponent in St Austell & Newquay, Stephen Gilbert, by faking a message. Although the story have been taken up by quite a few other bloggers (including Andrew Reeves, Nich Starling and Lib Dem Voice), I’ve [...]