YouGov marginals polls: a smattering of details and a warning
YouGov’s now annual mammoth marginals poll is out. It’s heavily talked about elsewhere, so here are a few extracts that are likely to be of particular interest. … Read the full post »
Hornsey & Wood Green
Hornsey & Wood Green is a Parliamentary constituency in north London, comprised of the western half of the London Borough of Haringey.
Lynne Featherstone, a former councillor and member of the London Assembly as well as the minister who legalised same-sex marriage, was its Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament from 2005 until 2015.
My favourite piece of post-election spinning
Can you spot the person and party in this local newspaper report who: (a) Slipped back to fourth place for the first time, (b) Saw their vote fall… … Read the full post »
Baby P’s death “could and should” have been stopped
The awful news about the second case of child abuse involving someone Haringey Council was meant to be protecting has rather pushed to one side the publication of the second Serious Case Review into Baby P’s death. … Read the full post »
Book review: General Election 2005 – What the voters saw
The United Kingdom’s 2005 general election has already seen a plethora of books published. Robinson and Fisher have found a distinctive and interesting niche to add to them. … Read the full post »
Lynne Featherstone vs Hazel Blears
The Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey & Wood Green has an article today on the New Statesman website about Hazel Blears and her speech last week to the Hansard society on political engagement. Although most of the coverage of the Blears speech has been about her comments on bloggers, Lynne takes her to task over … Read the full post »
Labour cuts the number of days Parliament will sit to lowest figure since 1979
Over the next year Parliament will sit for just 128 days, the lowest figure since 1979. … Read the full post »
Illegal abductions: Liberal Democrat conference debate
One of the debates at Liberal Democrat conference yesterday was about illegal abductions, otherwise known as the US kidnapping people around the world. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat TV at Harrogate party conference
Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, reviews the Friday night of the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference in Harrogate, and looks forward to Saturday’s Trident debate. … Read the full post »