Plus: Labour – Alastair Campbell v Labour failure. Tories – Dale v Massow? Labour again: Watson V Flint V Eagle V…. And: Roy Jenkins’s sex life. P.S: I’m getting married.
A handful of gains from the Liberal Democrats do little to disguise a total stalemate between Labour and the Tories in this region.
Plus: Two policemen’s child abuse claims. Lamb for LibDem leader. Osborne for the Foreign Office. And: why won’t Waterstones stock more copies of Farage’s book?
The party’s election line-up demotes or sidelines prominent left-wingers and gives vital portfolios to men better-disposed towards the Conservatives.
Norman Lamb, the Care Minister, is wrong to come out in support of Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill.
The Assisted Dying Bill requires that the intention to die has been formed “without coercion or duress”. How is a GP to know that?
There will be no shortage of claimants for the Chancellor’s extra £billions. But none of them should forget the necessity of reform.