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One of the fringe benefits of the costly plan to refurbish the Palace of Westminster is that for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, only elected legislators will sit in our Parliament. Major renovation work, said to cost billions, is…
And, so, into the Valley of Death marched Nick Clegg. The decision by the Lib Dem leader to base his European election strategy on being the most pro-European of the all main parties is, on the face of it, so barkingly mad that it’s…
As we draw nearer to the January 1, 2014, the arms race of claim and counter claim about the impact of Bulgarian and Romanian immigration to Britain will continue to escalate. Yet yesterday it soared into the stratosphere, following some…
All it took for two young men to mount last week’s vile attack against Drummer Lee Rigby was a car and some knives. In trying to stop similar atrocities in future, there needs to be a joined-up approach between effective security measures…
Three things are blindingly apparent this week. The first is that the Tories are still hopelessly divided on Europe. Plus ça change. The second is that Labour’s refusal to match the Tory referendum pledge leaves the party framed as the…
Planet Eton just doesn’t get it When it comes to appealing to working class voters, it’s clearly a case of one out, one in for the Tories. Scared that she might defect to UKIP, Nadine Dorries has been grudgingly readmitted back into the…
I trace what became my own galloping disinterest in football to a conversation with a mate of mine about Ryan Giggs’ testimonial match a decade or so ago. My friend, a good Salford leftie and lifelong Manchester United fan, suddenly became…
I read Arnie Graf’s piece yesterday with much interest. After all, his “root and branch” review of the party – at Ed Miliband’s behest - has the aspiration of creating a “strong organization with the soul of a movement”. What’s not to love…
I often have two thoughts when I see all those Labour types tweeting about being out on the #labourdoorstep. The first is a tad uncharitable; are they actually out there on the streets or are they really just sat in the pub? It always makes…
Boris Johnson’s nightmare interview on The Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning is the kind of encounter that changes perceptions about a politician. Not perhaps in the court of public opinion - Sunday morning political TV is the preserve of…
British politics is so tribal that it still has novelty value to say anything positive about a leader of another party - and doubly so when that person happens to be Margaret Thatcher. Ed Miliband is set to do just that in a Radio four…
There is a moment in every parliament when we reach that point when it feels nearer to the next election that it does from the last one. The exact dates don’t matter, it’s more an intuition, a sense that the tectonic plates have shifted…
