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By Dan Whittle Today the union branch that represents 400 staff of MPs made their submission to the the Committee on Standards in Public Life inquiry into MPs' Expenses. The submission includes the recent LabourList article by Kathryn…
By Chris Cook Alastair Darling's recent decision to leave no public asset unsold, and in particular, to flog off the Royal Mint at Llantrisant, is raising something of a storm in Wales. Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood said: "This decision is…
A LabourList Report The confidence in our banks and our banking sector has been severely diminished by the global financial crisis and subsequent recession, and to return to business as usual and not accept the lessons of the defining…
We've just stumbled across this piece in the Wall Street Journal about the Conservatives' political rebirth. It's a pretty damning indictment of the cut of their jib. "Mr. Cameron came to power in 2005, promising to transform the party…
From LabourList UPDATE on THE TORIES AND FOX HUNTING: A senior Conservative source now has said, in the Evening Standard, "We are as amazed as anyone else to hear that Edward Garnier is pushing this around the country. David's position is…
From LabourList Labour's Health Secretary Alan Johnson has responded to David Cameron's silence on Daniel Hannan's outburst on Fox News over the weekend, in which the Conservative MEP said that the NHS is "Socialist postwar conspiracy, a…
By Ben Folley As European elections approach it is always interesting to note how Labour's sister parties are doing. The news that in the middle of its six month presidency of the European Union, the Czech Republic's conservative government…
From LabourList We've had to fire a shot across Spectator Political Editor Fraser Nelson's bows ourselves but now he is being taken to task by the New Statesman's rising star James Macintyre. After Macintyre's piece exposing Cameron as a…
From LabourList LabourList has just received an email from a Tory PPC to their members, which says the following: "We have made great strides since the London/Crewe/Henley elections and I'm hopeful we will soon be able to offer you the…
By Sunder Katwala Labour's greatest historic achievement is the post-war welfare state. The welfare settlement advocated by the Beveridge Report of 1942 and put in place by the post-war Attlee government was not perfect, but it remains the…
From LabourList The Standard are splashing on details of an extraordinary phone conversation between Boris Johnson and Keith Vaz, where Boris appears to have done a Christian Bale over suggestions that he had given dodgy evidence to Vaz's…
The government supports in principle additional capacity at Heathrow, including a third runway and additional terminal facilities, after confirming that the strict local environmental criteria set as conditions to expansion would be met…
