We need more rigorous apprenticeships for young people - Twigg and Marsden
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08
Stephen Twigg MP, Labour’ Shadow Education Secretary, responding to David Cameron’ article on apprenticeships, said:
Energy switching campaign a potentially trailblazing way to bring down bills - Flint
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said in response to the launch of the first UK-wide collective energy switching campaign by Which? and 38 degrees:Letter from Jon Trickett MP to Sir Jeremy Heywood on newspaper reports surrounding Andrew Lansley
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Jon Trickett MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, has sent a letter to Sir Jeremy Heywood regarding reports today of briefings from Downing Street against Andrew Lansley. In the letter he said:You can judge the Tories by the friends they keep - Dugher
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Michael Dugher MP, Labour's Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, commenting on the appointment of Michael Farmer as Conservative Party co-TreasurerCameron must clarify if briefing on Lansley reflects majority opinion in No 10 - Burnham
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Andy Burnham MP, Labour’ Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Downing Street suggestion in today’ Times newspaper that 'Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot': “David Cameron must make an urgent statement and clarify whether these remarks come from a rogue source, or reflect his own and majority opinion in 10 Downing Street.Labour proposals to criminalise stalking, we will keep Govt to its word - Cooper
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, said:"It is a step forward that the Government is taking our proposals to criminalise stalking seriously and we welcome the apparent change of heart between this afternoon in the Commons and this evening in the Lords about the pace of action needed to support victims.Government is kicking away opportunities for the next generation – Buck
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08
Karen Buck MP, Labour’ Shadow Minister for Young People responding to the Barnardo’ Report on the 16-19 Bursary FundNew fund is nothing more than a sticking plaster over gaping hole in previous support for sustainable transport – Maria Eagle
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Maria Eagle MP, Labour’ Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to today's announcement on transport funding, said:Home Secretary needs to explain action she is taking on the national security implications of Abu Qatada judgement - Cooper
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:07:08Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on the announcement on Abu QatadaGeorge Osborne says anti-business hysteria should be shunned and rewards for success permitted
Updated: 2012-02-07 19:34:31Ian Paisley taken to hospital after suffering respiratory problems Politics The Guardian
Updated: 2012-02-07 15:06:40
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Updated: 2012-02-07 13:36:16
Prezza breaks with Labour to tell Adam Boulton: “I don’t like you but I don’t want to put you under statutory control.”Labour HQ Move Spin Unravels
Updated: 2012-02-07 11:44:56
When Labour announced that they were moving their HQ from 39 Victoria Street, they spun that it was in order to bring the party machine closer to the Leader of the Opposition’s operation in Parliament. Well that line has fallen apart pretty quickly with the announcement that they are moving barely a couple of hundred metres. In [...]Labour HQ Move Spin Unravels
Updated: 2012-02-07 10:42:26
In reply to Piers Morgan’s “I currently air in 200 countries/territories – how you getting on?” Gary Lineker correctly points out: “I think the 2 world cups I played in probably edged that”If the Liberal Democrats want to run health policy, they should take responsibility for it.
Updated: 2012-02-07 10:01:35The three kinds of compassionate conservatism
Updated: 2012-02-07 08:26:58Top Tipple
Updated: 2012-02-07 00:32:02
Guido is slow to this one, but it turns out someone does have a sense of humour after all. After the furore over “Top Totty” resulting in it being banned as a guest ale in the Strangers Bar, a brewery have sent over “Kangaroo Court” as a replacement. Here endeth the beer story. Tagged: Drunk, Spin, Totty WatchWATCH: Lembit’s Latest Turn
Updated: 2012-02-07 00:08:03
The career of Guido’s favourite LibDem, Lembit Opik, has taken another spectacular turn: A great stunt by rock and roll kids The Good Suns. Tagged: Freedom to Party, LibDemsA conservative case for gay marriage
Updated: 2012-02-06 08:34:47To mark 200 years of Dickens, Jeremy Hunt gives one of the great author's books to Cabinet colleagues
Updated: 2012-02-05 15:08:42A terrible Sunday press for Cameron. We are getting back to the unhappiness of the pre-veto period.
Updated: 2012-02-05 09:00:12How many more Syrians have to die, asks William Hague, before Russia and China allow the UN to act?
Updated: 2012-02-04 20:51:41IDS and Gove continue to impress Tory members
Updated: 2012-02-04 16:23:21Tory members say deregulation should be top growth priority
Updated: 2012-02-04 08:59:48Cameron's letter to Huhne praises his contribution to creating "greenest government ever"
Updated: 2012-02-03 11:46:23Three political implications of the prosecution of Chris Huhne
Updated: 2012-02-03 10:44:34Criminal records will be wiped clean under plans to give ex-offenders a better chance in job market
Updated: 2012-02-03 08:24:17Government sends another signal that it's about to (again) increase our contribution to the IMF bailout fund
Updated: 2012-02-02 16:02:37Introducing the Conservative Baldemorts
Updated: 2012-02-02 07:26:55Dark clouds gathering over Downing Street. Storms possible. Number 10 don't forecast Tory majority.
Updated: 2012-02-02 07:13:55Let's remove honours by X-Factor
Updated: 2012-02-01 08:26:43Some good news from (and for) David Willetts, who declares that "our University revolution has only just begun"
Updated: 2012-02-01 08:01:59PMQs: Miliband attacks on health and banking, but Conservatives launch benefits cap counter-attack
Updated: 2012-02-01 00:57:51New Northern Ireland Conservative Party formed in challenge to UUP
Updated: 2012-01-31 15:32:49