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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour has taken a minor hit in the first post Hoon-Hewitt poll, slipping by a point as the Tories rose by two compared with another poll conducted by the same group earlier in the week. It's not too drastic…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 David Miliband has today given his slightly stronger backing to the PM but is still under fire for his belated and "lukewarm" sentiments last night. Seven hours after the Hoon-Hewitt letter was originally…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * GORDON BROWN "THE FINAL MUTINY" yesterday. Patrick Wintour at the Guardian tells the story of how he did it, including the revelation that the Number 10 operation "tried to flush out enemies by briefing that…
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 Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I've just watched a much more grown up Prime Minister's Questions than we've become accostomed to of late. Although there were a few petty potshots fired between the PM and David Cameron, it was all relatively…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Today's G2 has an interesting profile of the brothers Miliband - and their increasing "rivalry" over the prospect of attaining the Labour leadership in the future. The feature, with a boxing-style billing on…
By Jeremy Cliffe and Joe Laking It is said that the difference between being Leader of the Opposition and being Prime Minister is that the former must ask "What do I have to say today?" and the latter "What do I have to do today?" We have…
By Jeremy Cliffe and Joe Laking It is said that the difference between being Leader of the Opposition and being Prime Minister is that the former must ask "What do I have to say today?" and the latter "What do I have to do today?" We have…
From @LabourList In the final installment of LabourList's review of the year online (see the first, second and third parts) we look to the last quarter of 2009. Nick Griffin appears on the BBC Question Time, the blogosphere flexes its…
From @LabourList In the penultimate installment of LabourList's review of the year online, we look from the summer months into party conference season. This period saw a by-election in Norwich, the use of the NHS to attack Barack Obama's…
From @LabourList In the second of four posts running up to New Year's Eve, LabourList looks back at the three months from April to June 2009: the drip-drip of revelations on expenses continues, LabourList's first editor steps down in the…
From @LabourList In the first of four posts running up to New Year's Eve, LabourList is taking a look at a selection of the best work from across the political blogoscape that reported - and made - the political news in 2009. Alex Smith has…
