Blog posts tagged "David Cameron"

December 9, 2011 7:54 am 74 Comments

Cameron's emphasis on his own veto did not obscure the reality that 17 Euro members, plus some half a dozen aspirant members, have agreed a much tighter fiscal regime, trading significant areas of sovereignty to achieve it.

October 26, 2011 5:46 pm 6 Comments

Blogging as leaders meet for the eurozone crisis summit, Jon Snow writes that "it's an incredible shambles here in Brussels".

July 27, 2011 8:04 am 41 Comments

Beyond your immediate work colleagues, your immediate family and or lovers, can you think of anyone you might have seen 26 times... or even 16 times in the past year? Jon Snow blogs.

June 27, 2011 7:02 am 15 Comments

Jon Snow looks at the relationship between Britain and China as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits the UK.

October 19, 2010 8:10 am 25 Comments

Strange - in former times, budgetary announcements and the rest used to have to be kept secret until they were announced on the floor of the House of Commons. But today vast amounts of the Strategic Defence and the Public Spending Reviews are already out in the public domain.

October 8, 2010 7:33 am 21 Comments

For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and [...]

July 31, 2010 12:25 pm 132 Comments

August is upon us and the Cameron coalition nears its 100 days. Cuts are looming, some are here. The Labour leadership contest dwindles toward its September finishing line. And with little guilt some who are lucky enough are heading for the beach.

June 16, 2010 8:54 am 24 Comments

There’s prosperity in Londonderry, Belfast and in so many of Northern Ireland’s towns and villages that throughout the Troubles was for ever absent.

June 3, 2010 1:41 pm 39 Comments

For the last two years French President Nicolas Sarkozy as been trying to persuade Britain to look again at the idea of combining nuclear deterrence with France.

June 2, 2010 8:36 am 32 Comments

At the height of the MPs expenses scandal, the then Commons Speaker Michael Martin - himself under siege - agreed a meeting with the three main Westminster party leaders.