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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday ran a story that set out to trash the reputation of an award-winning journalist in order to save the face of gaffe-prone Tory health spokesman, Andrew Lansley. As Mark Hanson…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On Saturday, Labour MP Tom Harris wrote "let's leave the railways where they are a success - in the private sector". But now it seems the government will be forced to nationalise the National Express east…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a welcome move, Alan Johnson signalled today that compulsory ID cards within the aviation industry will no longer be trialled in Manchester and London. But foreign nationals will still mandatorily have to…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Paul Moss, the Liberal Democrat PPC for Denton and Reddish in Greater Manchester, defected to Labour yesterday, saying: "Nationally the Liberal Democrats are a complete joke. And I have seen how the Lib Dems…
Jessica Asato is Acting Director of Progress. She met Alex Smith on Sunday, 28th June, 2009. The honorary President of Progress is Alan Milburn, who announced his intention to stand down as an MP over the weekend. How do you feel about his…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a spitting article in the Observer last weekend, Gary Younge said he's been "too disgusted to vote for Labour since 1992…what is difficult to understand is why people have chosen to become so disgusted with…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ed Balls has just given a commanding performance on the Andrew Marr show, speaking at length about pubic expenditure and the tough choices the government is making to beat the recession. With the interview…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Tories are already planning meetings to bind governmental departments to wholesale public service cuts, a year before an election is due. George Osborne, were he to make it to Number 11, would hold a…
By Alex Smith / alexsmith1982 CORRECTION: With regard to the below, the Party of European Socialists have contacted me to reassure readers that it is not the party itself that is changing its name; rather, it is the affiliate group in the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I'm still trying to organise a discussion for LabourList readers to debate the key issues with readers of ConservativeHome, but for now here's the transcript of the post-PMQs debate I did on Sky News this…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last night, I attended an event to discuss who is winning: the commentariat or the bloggertariat? Aside from this being an oft-combed topic, the debate was most noteworthy for a spat between Iain Dale and…
Sunder Katwala is the General Secretary of the Fabian Society. He met Alex Smith on Saturday, 20th June, 2009. AS: We're at the Fabian conference 6 months to Copenhagen. What's the purpose of this conference as you see it? SK: The job of…
