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By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Paul Waugh has the very interesting scoop that the Tories appear to have taken seriously the idea of dropping out of the general election in Barking, or putting up a paper candidate and suspending their…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Politicians are told not to answer hypothetical questions. But perhaps think-tankers and bloggers sometimes can. So let me introduce you to Katwala's first law of political recovery: No party which loses a…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft James Purnell has an interesting column in The Guardian, which the paper reports here. The piece is mostly about ideas. But first the inside baseball. The statement- "I've thought a lot about my resignation…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft It still seems likely that the moment of maximum danger for Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party into the General Election was the evening of Thursday June 4th 2009 when James Purnell resigned from the…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft "The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not...Political language...is designed to…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft ConservativeHome are asking how the Conservatives should address Labour's claim that they plan to put up VAT. As Guido Fawkes summarises: "[Tim Montgomerie] makes five suggestions: admit VAT will rise to 20%…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Is the wrong Milibandwagon now rolling fast? That is Jenni Russell's concern in her Guardian column, making the case for her friend Ed over his brother David. In the personality politics stakes, Ed Miliband had…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft There are two possible criticisms which pro-European political opponents might make of David Cameron's new European Union policy - one that it is meaningless; the other that it is dangerous. Which will the…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft UPDATE: Roger Helmer has also resigned. "I have returned to the back benches in order to concentrate on building such a movement", writes Daniel Hannan MEP on his Telegraph blog, calling for referendums and…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Why do Eurosceptics - who are mourning the signature of Czech President Vaclav Klaus today, which confirms that the Treaty will enter into law across the EU - get so exercised about the Lisbon Treaty? It is…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft UPDATE: The gag order has now been lifted! Carter-Ruck 0 v Blogosphere 1! Guardian gagged from reporting Parliament is an astonishing headline on an astonishing story. "The Guardian has been prevented from…
By Sunder Katwala However hard Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair sought the endorsement of Britain's biggest selling newspaper, it was never "The Sun Wot Won It" for Labour. The paper's vigorous and personal campaign against…
