ITV1’s Sunday Edition programme won something of a coup this morning when they secured campaign trail interviews with both David Cameron and Gordon Brown. Below are some observations from the interviews but they will probably be remembered for Gordon Brown’s clear indication that he has no indication of calling an early General Election. Location, location, […]
Home Secretary John Reid has just been interviewed on Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning programme. He used his slot to say he once had the "great privilege" of meeting the human rights-abusing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (ConservativeHome says: "!X+&*^%") and kept the door very slightly open to the possibility of challenging Gordon Brown for the Labour […]
David Cameron will play Punch and Judy with the Labour leadership today in a hard-hitting message at a pre-election rally in Swindon: "On Tuesday, we’ll have had 10 years of Blair and Brown. On Thursday, you can tell them what you think of their 10 years. Tell them what you think of their NHS cuts. […]
Max Hastings has written an overview of Tony Blair’s ten years in office for today’s Daily Mail. Five extracts are published below: Education, education, education?"For all the deceits peddled by examination authorities, our children are costing more to learn less. A third of secondary school pupils have some record of truancy. Most school-leavers are tossed […]
Tony Blair writing in today’s Telegraph says he disagrees with both the Blair of 1992 and the Cameron of 2007 in his analysis of crime and anti-social behaviour. I don’t follow his logic in parts but his underlying idea seems to be that a rising tide doesn’t lift all ships, that a disruptive minority in […]
The Press Association reports: "David Cameron brushed off claims that support for the Tories was stagnating in Welsh opinion polls when he hit the Assembly election trail today. Mr Cameron said a vote for his party was a vote for more "common sense" in Cardiff Bay and that the Conservatives were the only alternative to […]
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Is Tony Blair planning a final gift to the Labour Party by resigning before next Thursday’s local elections? The Express and Telegraph speculate that he might be planning to take advantage of the saturation coverage that would greet such an announcement. Although there would be a reminder of Labour’s failures – including of the handling […]
A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph shows the Tory lead down from 8% to 5% (compared with the most recent YouGov poll – for The Sunday Times). In line with other recent surveys the LibDems are up – a strengthening that probably reflects the energy of their council candidates rather than a new affection […]
Douglas Carswell MP is co-founder of the Direct Democracy group. He recently returned from a visit to Afghanistan. Des Browne’s departure from the Ministry of Defence, when it eventually happens, will do little to solve its underlying failures. Regardless of which Minister happens to be serving as the department’s mouthpiece, the MoD is institutionally incompetent. […]
When I was growing up the ‘star’ of Grange Hill was Mrs McClusky. It seems that the new target voters for CCHQ are Mrs McClusky’s teachers. The London Evening Standard (not online) reports that "the people in a staff room of an ordinary primary school" are David Cameron’s key targets at the next election. Political […]
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The above quotation comes from Fraser Nelson’s cover feature for this week’s Spectator. Next Thursday’s elections aren’t looking good for Labour. Sean Fear’s predictions can be read here.
Using Freedom of Information requests the above statistics are revealed in a report prepared by Tory MP Grant Shapps. Speaking to ConservativeHome, Grant said: "My report highlights how the very people who are charged with protecting the public are themselves under constant attack. That seventy Police Officers are attacked every day says much about society […]
Syed is a substitute member of the European Parliament’s justice and home affairs committee. Europe’s political leaders seem unwilling to take "no" for an answer. It is like they don’t understand our vocabulary. For them the European Constitution matters more than the people’s views, which is why they are bringing its provisions in bit by […]