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 Member of Parliament (2005-2015), former Shadow Chancellor and candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 2010, Ed Balls.
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
This animation sums up Labour’s (lack of) economic policy rather well. … Read the full post »
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… … Read the full post »