Are the Tories in trouble with the law over their by-election primary? Unlikely
Michael Crick is attempting to put an impressively perilous interpretation on the wording of the Representation of the People Act. … Read the full post »
Read my posts featuring the work of political journalist Michael Crick.
Michael Crick is attempting to put an impressively perilous interpretation on the wording of the Representation of the People Act. … Read the full post »
“Former Tory Minister Michael Mates is being probed for alleged electoral fraud over his attempt to become one of David Cameron’s new police commissioners” – Daily Mirror … Read the full post »
1. Running away from Michael Crick rarely works. 2. Running away from Michael Crick whilst he has a camera crew in tow even more rarely works. … Read the full post »
Michael Crick at his investigative best as he leaves Conservative Police Commissioner candidate for Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Michael Mates, floundering. … Read the full post »
As Michael Crick and Jonathan Calder have picked up on, the elections due this autumn for the Liberal Democrat Interim Peers Panel have been dropped. … Read the full post »
Michael Crick has the scoop about the scrapping of plans to fund open primaries for the selection of Westminster Parliament candidates. … Read the full post »
Over the last few years there has been an increasingly common pattern in the party of asking or expecting councillors to contribute sums. … Read the full post »
Exhibit A: “I hear from a well-placed source that the list of peers, with about 55 names from across the party spectrum, will be published on Wednesday 1 December” … Read the full post »
… in the space of a few months, it’s a pretty big clue that the party believes it has a strong chance of winning – and almost certainly has polling or canvass data analysis to back it up. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at Bournemouth conference, supported by The Guardian, looked at hung Parliaments and lessons from the past for the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »