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By Tom Miller The afternoon plenary at the weekend's Progressive London conference left the assembled crowd with a few pointers as to how Ken might be looking at national politics, along with some (sensibly placed) uncomfortableness on the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's no PMQs this week, so instead of our usual liveblog we thought we'd take a look at how Ed Miliband has performed so far in his weekly sessions with Cameron. We've marked him in the time-honoured…
By Ann Black NEC members were joined by colleagues from the joint policy committee, the conference arrangements committee and the national constitutional committee for an informal discussion with Peter Hain on his party reform project. He…
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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk David Cameron attempted to relaunch his floundering big society project today - but it doesn't look like his MPs are behind him. Over the last six months the people at the-big-society.co.uk have contacted…
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 The build up was immense. The Labour benches looked unusually full. The government benches were packed too. The first clash between chancellor and his combative new opponent had been hyped - perhaps…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Labour activists are facing confusion over what they (and their CLPs) are allowed to do in the run up to the AV referendum in May. Both the Labour Party and Labour Yes (the Yes to AV campaign group within…
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Is there no end to the muddle and misrepresentations generated by the controversy over the release by the Scottish government in August 2009 on compassionate grounds of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Earlier this week we covered the revelations that senior Tories have discussed the possibility of an "informal pact" with the Lib Dems at the next general election. Today has seen the most significant…
