Philip Hammond’s massive Mali cock-up

Yvette Cooper: “Nick Clegg revealed how little he understands violence against women this morning”

Nick Clegg has come under fire after he questioned whether or not images showing Charles Saatchi attacking his wife Nigella Lawson showed a “fleeting” exchange. Unsurprisingly, many people have pointed out to the Deputy Prime Minister that there’s no such thing as “fleeting” domestic violence. Here’s the video of Clegg’s “fleeting” comment: In a statement this afternoon, Yvette Cooper has slammed Clegg’s failure to condemn this kind of violence against women: “Nick Clegg revealed how little he understands violence against [...]

“I was wrong” for flipping my house, says Labour ex-minister – Media roundup: June 20th, 2013

Subscribers to our morning email get the best of LabourList – including the Media and blog round up – every weekday morning. If you were a subscriber you would have already received this (and much more) in your inbox. You can sign up here. “I was wrong” for flipping my house, says Labour ex-minister A Labour minister who resigned in the wake of the expenses scandal has finally conceded she was wrong to avoid paying thousands in tax on the sale [...]

Stephen Twigg answers your questions on Labour’s Education policy

By Mark Ferguson

Earlier this week Stephen Twigg agreed to answer questions put to him by Labour Party members and supporters following his major speech on Monday. The party sent out an email to all members inviting questions, and I wrote about Twigg’s speech – inviting people to ask Stephen whatever they wanted. The Labour Party hasn’t always been particularly open to interaction with members – especially on policy – but they deserve credit for the way they gone about this Q&A, as [...]

Back to Black? The return of In The Black Labour

18 months ago Anthony Painter, Hopi Sen and Adam Lent released their pamphlet “In the Black Labour”, which generated a substantial amount of coverage after calling for Labour to embrace “fiscal conservatism”. Now they’ve written a follow up essay, entitled “Moving Labour ‘into the black’”, which argues that: Labour should not do an about-turn on fiscal policy and welfare as it did under pressure eighteen months ago. The leadership needs to go further than recent speeches – publish fiscal rules [...]

What’s my name again? Obama calls Osborne “Jeffrey” three times at G8

There’s a damning report in The Sun this morning that Barack Obama repeatedly referred to George Osborne as “Jeffrey” during the G8, suggesting that Osborne’s management of the British economy hasn’t turned him into a globe straddling economic colossus. Who knew? The Sun believe that Obama was confusing George Osborne with singer Jeffrey Osborne, and produced the following (via Guido Fawkes): Yet we think there might be someone else that Osborne reminds Obama of. An English guy called not Jeffrey, [...]