Election round-up – including the Lib Dem MP who is retiring, triggering an all-woman shortlist
One of the nine current Liberal Democrat MPs has chosen to step down ahead of June’s general election. … Read the full post »
Read my posts featuring Tony Blair, Labour Prime Minister 1997-2007, when he was succeeded by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
One of the nine current Liberal Democrat MPs has chosen to step down ahead of June’s general election. … Read the full post »
Shortly after the Conservative Party won its fourth general election in a row in 1992, a symposium met to consider the question of whether Britain – formerly a country with regularly rotating government between the two main parties – was turning into a political version of Japan. … Read the full post »
Britain’s elite Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst is being paid £4.2m this year to train 105 overseas military officer cadets, many of whom come from Gulf states whose human rights records are regularly condemned. … Read the full post »
From Michael Ashcroft’s research into Labour loyalists and those who switched from Labour in 2015… … Read the full post »
Labour’s attitude towards its two most successful party leaders is rather revealing. … Read the full post »
I was the guest on the great polling podcast Polling Matters, talking to Keiran Pedley about the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
We reckon that about £20,000 of his donation is going directly to fighting the Liberal Democrats in seats where we’re up against Labour. … Read the full post »
The late Tony Benn’s lament that politics should be about issues, not personalities, is one echoed even by many who would struggle to find any issues on which they agree with him. But it’s not a view I share. … Read the full post »
Talking at the Fabian Society’s conference today, I pointed out that the past is not always a helpful guide to the political future. … Read the full post »
Stuart Ball’s collections of election posters from the Conservative Party Archive at the Bodleian is really two books in one. … Read the full post »