Finding out the things that people don't want unearthed, Michael Crick keeps an investigative eye on the halls of power.
February 9, 2012 3:04 pm 4 Comments
Further to my blog yesterday, Labour’s Shadow leader of the Lords, Baroness (Jan) Royall has today said the government definitely plans to pack the Lords with a large new batch of predominantly Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers.
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Channel 4 News Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on Simon Weston's decision to stand for election as a police and crime commissioners (PCCs).
February 8, 2012 6:59 pm 2 Comments
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on rumours that David Cameron is about to appoint 60-65 new peers
February 7, 2012 7:59 pm No Comments
The former Labour minister Peter Kilfoyle has confirmed to me that he has applied for the Labour nomination for November’s election for post of police and crime commissioner for Merseyside. Kilfoyle stood down as MP for Liverpool Walton at the last election after 19 years as an MP. The other contender for the Labour nomination [...]
February 2, 2012 10:06 pm No Comments
The Lib Dem backbenches are not over-brimming with talent right now. I expect four or five ministers to lose their jobs when David Cameron initiates a large reshuffle later this year (including David Shutt in the Lords).
January 25, 2012 5:17 pm 3 Comments
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick on the runners and riders for the police commissioner jobs.
January 17, 2012 8:59 pm 19 Comments
Both the Conservatives and Labour are hoping to contest all 41 posts for elected police commissioners, though with little enthusiasm, writes Michael Crick.
January 13, 2012 4:29 pm 4 Comments
If, as looks increasingly likely, Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination, he'll be 65 when he stands in the general election this November. And Republicans like elderly candidates.
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Following last week's announcement by Alun Michael that's he's trying to become Labour's candidate for police and crime commissioner (PCC) for the South Wales area (as I forecast here a few weeks ago), his son Tal tweeted me this morning to announce that he himself is now running for police commissioner in North Wales.
January 6, 2012 6:44 pm 4 Comments
The contest between the Lib Dem's Tim Farron and the Conservative's Rory Stewart in Cumbria was set to be the highlight of the next elections. But a cross-party proposal for alternative boundaries looks set to avert the battle.
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