Robert Colvile is the director of Direct Democracy. As the loans-for-peerages affair is teaching us, when it comes to politics the people with the money have the power. For the past decade, Gordon Brown has had remarkable control over the domestic agenda simply because he controls who gets how much cash. Similarly, to achieve its […]
Robert is Director of Direct Democracy. For the next part of this series, Dr Lee Rotherham will look at the obstacle of the EU. This isn’t something you’ll read often on this site, but here we go: the Lib Dems were right, and we were wrong. Back in the 1980s, the Conservatives had a problem […]