A busy autumn awaits – but first, a break
Away for a break now. We now know that an already busy autumn political season will be peppered with Iraq Inquiry public hearings. That’s on top of pre-election conferences, a Pre-Budget
Chilcot insists Iraq Inquiry won't shy from pointing blame
At the Iraq Inquiry launch. Sir John Chilcot says don’t expect a report before the end of 2010 at the earliest. Witnesses will have to give undertakings that their evidence is truthful, fair
Brown 'unlikely' to lead Labour at next election
A former Cabinet Minister tells me it is “exceptionally unlikely” that Gordon Brown will lead the Labour Party into the next election. Labour rebels acknowledge that some support for
Days are numbered for MPs' £25 unreceipted allowance
The £25 per day subsistence allowance for MPs splashed across the front page of the Daily Telegraph today has been claimed by MPs since it appeared in the Green Book of expenses rules in March
A quiet, but major, shift in the nature of the welfare state
Peter Mandelson’s first speech on the universities since they were swallowed up by his department makes it clear that he expects the tuition fees cap to move up or be dumped altogether.
A landslide victory without the landslide?
The more you look at the Norwich result the more puzzling it is. Sea-change political moments require “converts,” or so we’ve always thought. You can’t build a mighty
Norwich result will strike fear into Labour strategists
Ouch! There are significant numbers of what would normally be called “core Labour voters” in Norwich North. Their abstentions and switching will strike fear in the heart of Labour
Ian Gibson: remembered at the count
A solitary poignant demo as we wait for the Norwich North by-election declaration.
At the Norwich count, where a vicar wears a BNP rosette
11.50AM UPDATE: We are hearing that the Libs have held on to third place and that UKIP may have pushed the Greens – who had high hopes here – into fifth. Not long to wait. – I am
Brown's press conference – a rehearsal for by-election defeat?
Gordon Brown at his press conference just now sounded like a man rehearsing his lines for Friday when Norwich North looks like getting a Tory MP. He said he thought “people do understand the
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