PMQs Verdict: Sombre, sober and in memory of a man respected across the house
I’ll be honest, I was expecting fireworks at PMQs today. It’s the first day back after the Christmas…
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Paul Goggins MP has died, aged 60
Paul Goggins, The Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East has passed away in hospital. He was 60.…
5 things that Labour must get right in 2014
By Marcus Roberts and Mark Ferguson The year might be a week old, and MPS may have been…
A “hard lesson” for George Osborne
In 2011 George Osborne proclaimed that “We have already asked the British people for what is needed, and…
Labour voters want to talk about immigration – so why don’t we?
There’s a strange fiction that abounds in the country that Labour doesn’t want to talk about immigration. Well,…
Go big or go home
It could be a lingering fragment of festive goodwill – or maybe I’m just going soft – but…
It’s time today’s Tory ministers apologised for the sins of their fathers
Yesterday cabinet papers from 1984 revealed that Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government did have a secret hit list of…
How Thatcher lied to the country during the Miners’ Strike
After thirty years of collecting dust, the declassification of secret government papers has finally exposed Margaret Thatcher’s and…
The Lib Dems’ pro-European stance is madness. And genius
And, so, into the Valley of Death marched Nick Clegg. The decision by the Lib Dem leader to…
London is becoming a Tale of Two Cities
It was a quiet ceremony, but a significant one. As the clocks struck midnight in New York yesterday,…
