Blog posts tagged "Labour in crisis"

June 8, 2009 12:50 pm No Comments

There is what feels like a nasty coalition between the media and the political classes. There seems to be an acute desire to bring whatever it is to the boil and then lance it (mixing metaphors). But I’m not sure there is actually anything very specific to bring to the boil beyond the residual right-left [...]

June 5, 2009 11:15 am No Comments

To answer my own initial question: Purnell has broken from the pack. He has done what David Miliband, conceivably Andy Burnham, and maybe John Hutton (of whom more in a moment), might have done and must have been thinking of doing. Purnell has plunged a knife that has been waiting for such an exercise for [...]