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Sadiq Khan - who ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign in 2010 - was speaking at Unison Labour Link's conference today, and pledged that there would be a leadership election next year. However - only for the Tories and the Lib Dems. The…
Today's PMQs looked like it was going to be one of those relatively sedate, quiet and polite sessions today. Everyone wanted to talk about the floods, and both Ed Miliband and the Prime Minister were determined to be serious and…
For today's PMQs, I expected drudgery. Or at the very least "dredgery". All politicians must - in these flood times - feign an intimate knowledge of the importance of dreading, silt, man-made canals and flood defences. None of which is…
So Nick Clegg has left the stage at Lib Dem conference with the applause, well, not exactly thundering in his ears as such, but certainly trickling into them. It was a performance that started off well but petered out into a soporific…
Only two days ago I was sitting in a field in Glastonbury. To say that the last 48 hours have been a long time in the Labour Party would be an epic understatement. Anyone waiting with baited breath for an example of Athenian debating in the…
"We want to start a war" - Woolwich attacker "right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose" - Ingrid Loyau-Kennett Only 24 hours ago, news began to trickle through about a barbarous crime, committed on the streets of…
The incessant debate of the last week around Margaret Thatcher and her- largely baleful- legacy has perhaps obscured the progressive collapse of the mantra proclaimed by her latest successor as Tory Leader and PM, the notion of the “Big…
When David Cameron said we are all 'Thatcherites' now on the morning of Baroness Thatchers funeral he not only crossed the line from national leader to party propogandist he finally buried the political project which was at the core of his…
We’ve seen at least two sides of our Parliament in the past 24 hours – perhaps more. Last night’s debate on Equal Marriage was certainly an eye-opener. The speeches ranged from the spectacular to the erudite, the heroic to the downright…
17.52: Building a million new homes wins the race at a canter as the chosen Fabian pledge. Incidentally, NPF Chair Angela Eagle voted for it. 17.45: Over the last hour the conference has been debating a number of potential Labour pledges…
By Marcus Roberts and Mark Ferguson The conventional wisdom is that 2012 ends much as it began: government infighting, questions over Labour policy, weak economy etc. but that argument misses something important: it is these very factors…
Another year is almost over - but there's one task still remaining. Have you voted in our 2012 survey of the year? Don't miss your chance to say how you think your party is doing as we pass the mid-point of this Parliament: Last year's…
