Government to pilot new voter ID laws for May 2017 elections
A Conservative government wants to introduce a measure which would benefit it electorally and for which it hasn’t produced strong evidence. … Read the full post »
Read about the Conservative politician and minister, Eric Pickles.
A Conservative government wants to introduce a measure which would benefit it electorally and for which it hasn’t produced strong evidence. … Read the full post »
A long list of recommendations should always have a careful reader diving for the details to see quite what is lurking in the list. … Read the full post »
Eric Pickles, the Government’s Anti-Corruption Champion, is to review electoral fraud and make recommendations on what more could be done to tackle it. … Read the full post »
Naomi Eisenstadt was the first director of the Sure Start program when it was created under Labour. … Read the full post »
As for what Lynne Featherstone said about Steve Hilton, if think think that was acerbic, you should hear what plenty of Lib Dems in Whitehall say about him… … Read the full post »
Looking through the local council by-laws still in force in the London Borough of Islington, I came across this one on spitting… … Read the full post »
Long-time readers will know that I’ve often criticised the widespread practice of local authority Chief Executives pocketing extra payments for running elections. … Read the full post »
There’s been some promising chatter in the run-up to next week’s Budget about two major changes to our tax system. … Read the full post »
It’s very common to see local councils advertising in local newspapers, and they are often one of the main sources of advertising revenue for the local press. That can cause conflicts over whether there is improper influence at work and also over whether councils should shift money elsewhere, risking plunging the local press into enforced … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #3 is out: what Eric Pickles got right, how Labour was going to cut more, our freedoms extended, conference previewed and more. … Read the full post »