Nick Clegg: delivering a Liberal Parliament
Nick Clegg has been giving a speech at the think-tank Demos today, setting out his vision for what this Parliament should achieve. … Read the full post »
Read my posts featuring the former Labour Member of Parliament (1983-2015) and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. He succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 2007 and held the post until losing the 2010 general election.
His time as Prime Minister is expertly covered in Brown at 10.
Nick Clegg has been giving a speech at the think-tank Demos today, setting out his vision for what this Parliament should achieve. … Read the full post »
Throws a bit of a spanner in the works of the Labour rhetoric about how awful anyone who contemplates raising VAT is. … Read the full post »
Sunder Katwala of the Fabians has a thought-provoking post about the role of Kier Hardie in Labour’s current political traditions and attitudes towards working with other parties. … Read the full post »
Having seen trailed in advance the research being done for today’s piece on why Labour/Lib Dem talks broke down, I was intrigued… … Read the full post »
All the main parties have promised to cut the government’s deficit after the election. Which party do you think is being the most honest about what spending cuts they would make to deliver this? … Read the full post »
Collectively we’re obsessed with American political culture, which is why pretty much everything gets the “-gate” suffix in homage to Watergate. … Read the full post »
Iain Dale quite rightly has queried why the prospect of Labour finishing third in the popular share of the vote isn’t a big story being talked about in the media. … Read the full post »
Unlock Democracy, the UK’s leading campaign for democracy, rights and freedoms, today unveils its new report which looks at how committed British political parties are to democratic reform. … Read the full post »
The polls are showing not just a surge in Lib Dems support but a big increase in the number of young backers of the party, and in the number of people saying they will vote overall. … Read the full post »
The TV audience peaked at just under 10m, far more than any online audience for a UK political event. TV kept on broadcasting whilst Facebook and Tweetminster buckled under the load. … Read the full post »