An excellent quick-fire Q+A with Ed Davey and Layla Moran
This moring’s Politico London Playbook email contains a very useful quick-fire Q&A with the candidates to be the next leader of the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Ed Balls
Read about the Labour politician, former Shadow Chancellor and candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 2010.
What to do if you think you’ve just given a bad TV interview
Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman struggled to give the figures on how much a bankers’ tax would raise or how much a job creation plan would cost. … Read the full post »
Most impressive straight face during a photo opportunity / most ill-advised speech location / and other election news
Featuring hedgehogs, gravestones and growing party membership on the 2015 election campaign trail. … Read the full post »
Ed Balls: I’ll do just the same as George Osborne
That tub-thumping Labour opposition at work again: Ed Balls says he won’t under anything from George Osborne’s Budget. … Read the full post »
Ed Balls has a little problem with basic maths
Labour should tell us which areas they think are getting too much infrastructure investment. … Read the full post »
Ah! So this is Labour’s economic vision
And a reminder of how Labour left things in May 2010: A reminder of how things were when Labour left office… #NoMoneyLeft pic.twitter.com/f9FaQz79Q6 — Mark Pack (@markpack) May 15, 2014 Followed by:
An odd thing no-one has mentioned about the Lib Dem negotiating team for a 2015 hung Parliament
There’s been a fair amount of discussion in Liberal Democrat circles, and even the media, about Nick Clegg’s announcement of who the Lib Dem negotiating team would be in the event of a hung Parliament. … Read the full post »
Nick Clegg sets out what he thinks Lib Dem economic policy should for 2015
“In the Autumn Statement we set out a plan to get debt falling as a proportion of GDP by 2016/17 and to get the current structural deficit in balance a year later. That is the right timescale and the one to which the Liberal Democrats remain absolutely committed. If I am in government again, this is the plan I want us to stick to.” … Read the full post »
Labour’s Ed Balls is at it again
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls gets in another tangle over what he said, what he predicted and what Labour did. … Read the full post »
Political journalists regularly did what I wanted in return for getting a story given to them – Damian McBride
Many British journalists are so keen to have a good story to run, they are easily bought off and distracted by government spin doctors who can get them to ditch an unwanted story as long as the spin doctor has a better story to offer up as journalistic payment. That is the basic story of … Read the full post »