News Cameron promotes minister who tried to resign into the Cabinet The Tory Leader in the Lords, Lord Strathclyde, has resigned today – which considering today is “relaunch day”… Mark Ferguson 7th January, 2013, 12:24 pm
News Morning Report: Westminster awakes as Nick and Dave rekindle their romance Dedicated LabourList readers will remember that (long ago) we used to do a feature called “Morning Report” each… Mark Ferguson 7th January, 2013, 8:36 am
News David Miliband to return in spring 2014? In The Times this morning Roland Watson reports that: “David Miliband is beginning to give serious thought to… Mark Ferguson 7th January, 2013, 7:35 am
Comment A By-election strategy won’t save the Lib Dems in 2015 Today in the Guardian there’s an interesting bit of briefing from the Lib Dems on their proposed general… Mark Ferguson 5th January, 2013, 2:54 pm
Comment There’s nothing Labour about unemployment – but compulsory work is only worthwhile if it’s good work The compulsory job scheme plans announced by Ed Balls this morning have received a thoroughly unsurprising response. The… Mark Ferguson 4th January, 2013, 10:58 am
Comment Optimism, Mr Cameron? Tell that to your party… In his New Year Message today, David Cameron says that “We can look to the future with realism… Mark Ferguson 30th December, 2012, 1:01 pm
Comment More concrete policy in 2013 Ed? We’ll hold you to that… This morning Ed Miliband released his (One Nation) New Year Message. It’s quite interesting, and you can watch… Mark Ferguson 28th December, 2012, 11:54 am
News Alistair Darling to step down? Perhaps not… The Sun reports this morning that Alistair Darling may step down at the next election, with the paper… Mark Ferguson 27th December, 2012, 10:07 am
Comment Want to know Labour’s big policy ideas? You could be waiting a while… I had such high hopes for 2013. I thought that we were finally beginning to get some idea… Mark Ferguson 21st December, 2012, 11:05 am
News 3 things we might expect from a Labour immigration policy Following up on Ed Miliband’s recent speeches on immigration and integration, Yvette Cooper has today put a little… Mark Ferguson 20th December, 2012, 1:31 pm