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Tom Copley's London Eye It’s been a month since I had the great honour of being elected to the London Assembly. It was an odd moment of delight combined with sadness that Ken Livingstone – a man whom I have admired ever since I became…
John Prescott on advising Ed Miliband: "Ed came to me for advice... and I said put your jacket on, leaders shouldn't be seen without their jacket"
By Stephen Newton Later today David Cameron should reluctantly accept the resignation of his defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox. In turn, Fox should express much regret his lack of judgement in allowing a friend, who had not been security…
By Jonathan Roberts / @robertsjonathan Ed Miliband, together with excellent contributions from Labour MPs Tom Watson and Chris Bryant, has helped shape the debate over the latest phone-hacking exposures. They should be congratulated. Yet…
By Peter Barnard Kenneth Harris' biography of Clem Attlee states that Attlee's favourite passage in books that he was reading at the beginning of the last century came from the novel A Dream of John Ball, by William Morris: "Forsooth…
By Mike Ion According to David Cameron it is his "patriotic duty" to remove Gordon Brown from office. Does this mean that anyone who votes Labour at the next election is being unpatriotic? It is Mr Cameron's pursuit of silly, 'catchphrase'…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last Thursday, Neil Kinnock gave a rousing thirty-five minute speech to a fundraiser at the Tottenham Labour Party in David Lammy's constituency. Get him out on the campaign trail, because this is Kinnock as…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ahead of an Opposition Studies Forum event tonight in which Neil Kinnock and Michael Howard will speak, former Labour leader Kinnock has warned the party of the damage that could await it if it loses the…
The Paul Richards column Is there a new concerted attempt to suggest the Labour Party is riddled with communists and subversives, who were filling their boots with Moscow gold during the 1980s? The Spectator has been running a series of…
By Sunder Katwala However hard Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair sought the endorsement of Britain's biggest selling newspaper, it was never "The Sun Wot Won It" for Labour. The paper's vigorous and personal campaign against…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As any football fan will tell you, the dirty business of politics should be kept as far away from the beautiful game as possible. But the tragedy at Hillsborough in 1989 involved people whose salaries were…
By Steve Carter I was shocked to see spread across the media this week, a story claiming that John Prescott had mocked Gordon Brown's smile as evidence of his disloyalty towards our Prime minister. There is no better supporter of the Labour…
