Blog posts tagged "election"

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.

May 7, 2010 2:34 am 10 Comments

Perhaps I was right first time round – this did prove to be thus far the “none of the above” election. At 2.30 am that’s what it looks like with 112 seats declared. The XFactor – Nick Clegg – denied a great electoral romp. Labour heavily swung against, losing seats but not as many as [...]

May 6, 2010 10:48 pm 8 Comments

Mmm hung say the exit polls – read my Snowblog re the Year of The Broken Swing. I am deluded enough to believe that this is the year of the seat by seat election – conventional polling, conventional swings won’t obey the rules.

April 30, 2010 3:27 pm 57 Comments

I came to after my post-debate reverie on the 17th floor of the Radisson Hotel in Birmingham at 6:05am to the dulcet tones of Evan Davis and the Today Programme. Had a bath, caught the 6:30am to Euston. One scrambled egg and salmon and a black coffee later I arrived having been online throughout the [...]

April 7, 2010 9:11 am 45 Comments

Whilst the rest of us were yesterday marking that benchmark moment in our democracy when an election is called, the House of Lords was the scene of an awful climax to their Lordships’ expenses scandal. 78-year-old Lord Clarke of Hampstead was being flogged at the yard arm. Hard to know whether to feel sorry or [...]

April 6, 2010 8:52 am 27 Comments

It predated the age of the Prime Ministerial Jag – if my memory serves, it was a Humber Super Snipe. The sense of excitement and anticipation was palpable. Ted Heath was spectacularly unpopular. Harold Wilson had only been out of power for four short years. It was 1974 – my first election as a reporter. [...]

March 12, 2010 7:08 am 52 Comments

Jon Snow writes from Hull as he addresses the issue of bias.

March 11, 2010 8:59 am 21 Comments

I am on the road in UK PLC taking the temperature ahead of the impending election. Luton is to be my first stop – I catch the 22.32 train from London’s St Pancras. What a station; what a train! A winter palace contrasted with an elderly cake tin. The cake tin takes off at surprising speed. [...]