I'd never thought she'd turn into, say, Tony Benn and spend three hundred years in the Commons, but I'm somewhat surprised by Louise Mensch's resignation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19146805 Conservative politician and novelist Louise Mensch is to stand down ( Read more... )

In the aftermath of the local elections (and AV referendum), I've seen a number of people claiming a narrative that goes, roughly speaking:

zOMG, the Conservatives are successfully using the LibDems as scape-goats for the cuts. Aren't they clever?
And this explains the plummet in the LibDem vote and the generally much better Conservative result ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12429152
The government has been defeated in the High Court over its decision to scrap England's school building programme ( Read more... )

Interesting discussion between George Osborne and Evan Davis on the Today programme this morning. It was slightly let down by Evan not having quite the killer instinct / dogged determination that some other interviewers do - Eddie Mair would have been all over him for it, for example ( Read more... )

1) For most of the duration between the first debate and the election, I was pretty convinced that the poll numbers were soft. Various reasons ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8394458.stm Sir Peter, 71, who will stand down at next year's general election, has been the town's MP since February 1974 ( Read more... )

What could be more British than a bill of rights drawn up by Winston Churchill? Let's call it, I don't know, the European Convention on Human Rights.

Example here: The idea of creating a European Convention on Human Rights including a Court for its implementation was first formed at the Congress of Europe organised by the International ( Read more... )

In the past month or so, the suggestions from politicos for how Labour should attack the Tories are that they should focus on Cameron vs the party. The biggest example is that David Cameron says he loves the NHS, but members of the Tory party goes on about how awful it is on US telly or suggests that someone who's off work ill should pay £10 to ( Read more... )

... if Daniel Hannan had arranged the attack on David Blunkett? His acceptance speech is up there with David Mellor losing his seat, in my mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8088541.stmHe quoted from Dr Seuss: "You can go by foot, you can go by cow, ( Read more... )

As a known, self-confessed Liberal Democrat, it should come as little surprise that I'm in favour of proportional representation. However, I'm not in favour of just any form of proportional representation, and therefore I'm slightly sceptical of Alan Johnson's referendum ( Read more... )