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By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft "I want everybody to have the chances I had", Prime Minister David Cameron has said to his party conference, being quite open about the privileges of his background, but seeking to extend them to everybody…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConservativeHome today follows The Sun newspaper in also calling for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke to be sacked. Or, as the Daily Mail headline on his piece asks gently: Is it time to…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The Liberal Democrats last night made the farcical claim that Lord Oakeshott has not been a Treasury spokesman for the party since the general election, after the peer resigned from the role "by mutual…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Last week the possibility of the party changing the way in which we conduct our leadership elections was raised - and not for the first time. There were similar reports over the Christmas period which…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Nat Wei, the man charged by the government with making the big society happen, is to cut down his government role from three days to two, because he needs more time to earn money, see his family and "have a…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft For the new partnership to last four years rather than four months, Miliband may need his new shadow chancellor to complete a personal reinvention as a frontline politician. Ed Balls was - from 1997 to 2004…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft There has been more than an element of "The Thick of It" in the government's partial u-turn on school sport funding, as Saturday's Guardian reported in explaining the timing of today's announcement. "Whitehall…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Fact-check for Nicky Campbell, based on Fraser Nelson's Coffee House blog of Campbell's radio interview with Ed Miliband. "NC: Are you a socialist? EM: Yeah, I am a socialist. NC: Oh my goodness! We haven't…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Politicians are often criticised for simply chasing the centre-ground of public opinion. Not Nick Clegg. For a man who has mislaid half of his voters in six months, he remains admirably willing to strike an…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The boards outside the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue advertise the Michael Jackson tribute musical 'Thriller Live' but the king of pop was displaced for one night only as the Labour tribe gathered last…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Liam Byrne, who has shadow cabinet responsibility for shadowing the cabinet office, had been asked by leader Ed Miliband to lead a policy review for the party. Along with Andy Burnham's role as election…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Ed Miliband will sensibly place little weight on the 'morale boost' of Labour's first opinion poll lead for three years with ICM and the Guardian, reported in Friday's newspaper, where his party lead the…
