• Uncertainty whilst John Terry's case waits to be heard helps no one - Efford

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Clive Efford MP, Labour's Shadow Sport Minister, said concerning John Terry's captaincy of England:

  • Many people will be shocked that this out of touch Government appears not to have dealt with tax avoidance at the top - Leslie

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Chris Leslie MP, Labour’ Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, responding to BBC Newsnight reports this evening suggesting that Danny Alexander and David Willetts approved the Chief Executive Officer of the Student Loans Company’ contract, said:

  • Ministers are showing they are desperately out of touch by not acting over Network Rail bonus plan - Maria Eagle

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Maria Eagle MP, Labour’ Shadow Transport Secretary, in advance of next week’ Network Rail General Meeting which is set to approve a new bonus package, said:

  • Chris Huhne should forfeit ministerial severance pay - Evans

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Chris Evans, Labour MP for Islwyn, said:

  • There are serious questions to answer over the manner of this announcement on Afghanistan - Alexander & Murphy

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Douglas Alexander MP, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, commenting on the Government's announcement on Afghanistan today, said:

  • Disappointed by the Government’s evasive response to the International Development Select Committee's report on Burundi - Lewis

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Ivan Lewis MP, Labour's Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to the Government’ response to the International Development Select Committee's report on Burundi, said:

  • No10 has passed the buck to Justine Greening on Network Rail bonuses & she must now act - Maria Eagle

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Maria Eagle MP, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary, said in response to the admission by Number 10 that the Transport Secretary does have powers over Network Rail bonuses:

  • Appointment of new Energy and Climate Change Secretary is opportunity for Government to change course - Flint

    Updated: 2012-02-04 11:39:12
    Caroline Flint MP, Labour’ Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, commenting on the appointment of Ed Davey as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change following Chris Huhne’ resignation, said:

  • Tory members say deregulation should be top growth priority

    Updated: 2012-02-04 08:59:48

  • The impact of Chris Huhne's resignation on his party and the man himself Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:16:23
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The impact of Chris Huhne's resignation on his party and the man himself by Ben Duckworth 03 Feb 2012 12:43 The former energy secretary now faces the sternest test of his mental strength Related Articles A memo to Ed Davey from IPPR by Will Straw and Clare McNeil 03 February 2012 Huhne charged over speeding penalty claims by Caroline Crampton 03 February 2012 Miliband on one-nation banking' by Amber Elliott 03 February 2012 The many personas of Alex Salmond by David Torrance 25 January 2012 Clegg's not so blue Blue Monday by Amber

  • The impact of Chris Huhne's resignation on his party and the man himself Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 17:16:21
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The impact of Chris Huhne's resignation on his party and the man himself by Ben Duckworth 03 Feb 2012 12:43 The former energy secretary now faces the sternest test of his mental strength Related Articles A memo to Ed Davey from IPPR by Will Straw and Clare McNeil 03 February 2012 Huhne charged over speeding penalty claims by Caroline Crampton 03 February 2012 Miliband on one-nation banking' by Amber Elliott 03 February 2012 The many personas of Alex Salmond by David Torrance 25 January 2012 Clegg's not so blue Blue Monday by Amber

  • The wisdom of the mob

    Updated: 2012-02-03 11:59:31
    Coriolanus is not an easy play for politicians to watch. From the moment he walks onto the stage, the eponymous general flaunts his fierce contempt for the electorate: What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs? His refusal to be polite to voters leads not only [...]

  • Cameron's letter to Huhne praises his contribution to creating "greenest government ever"

    Updated: 2012-02-03 11:46:23

  • Three political implications of the prosecution of Chris Huhne

    Updated: 2012-02-03 10:44:34

  • Criminal records will be wiped clean under plans to give ex-offenders a better chance in job market

    Updated: 2012-02-03 08:24:17

  • Hain the political party model is bust' Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:35
    : Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Hain : the political party model is bust' by Amber Elliott 02 Feb 2012 18:02 The Labour MP leading the charge on Refounding Labour believes that people are no longer inclined to join political parties Getty Images Related Articles Ed Miliband's cry to Save the Union' half works by Ben Duckworth 30 January 2012 Zac Goldsmith recall proposals are regressive' by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 Len McCluskey's intervention is a change of heart by Amber Elliott 17 January 2012 Now panic and freak out Sadie Smith is defecting by Sadie Smith

  • Hain the political party model is bust' Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:33
    : Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Hain : the political party model is bust' by Amber Elliott 02 Feb 2012 18:02 The Labour MP leading the charge on Refounding Labour believes that people are no longer inclined to join political parties Getty Images Related Articles Ed Miliband's cry to Save the Union' half works by Ben Duckworth 30 January 2012 Zac Goldsmith recall proposals are regressive' by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 Len McCluskey's intervention is a change of heart by Amber Elliott 17 January 2012 Now panic and freak out Sadie Smith is defecting by Sadie Smith

  • What's the point of the House of Lords Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:32
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS What's the point of the House of Lords by Caroline Crampton 02 Feb 2012 16:44 With the government seeking to strike out the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill with the financial privilege instrument , we're left wondering what authority the Lords has left Related Articles Tory backbenchers react to Cameron's statement by Amber Elliott 31 January 2012 Win tickets to the first part of the Tricycle Theatre's The Bomb' 30 January 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 A long-overdue PMQs

  • What's the point of the House of Lords Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:31
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS What's the point of the House of Lords by Caroline Crampton 02 Feb 2012 16:44 With the government seeking to strike out the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill with the financial privilege instrument , we're left wondering what authority the Lords has left Related Articles Tory backbenchers react to Cameron's statement by Amber Elliott 31 January 2012 Win tickets to the first part of the Tricycle Theatre's The Bomb' 30 January 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 A long-overdue PMQs

  • No more Top Totty' in Parliament Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:30
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS No more Top Totty' in Parliament by Caroline Crampton 02 Feb 2012 13:17 Kate Green MP has called for a beer called Top Totty' to be removed from sale in Strangers' Bar Related Articles Bill Cash : I call myself a eurorealist rather than a eurosceptic' by Caroline Crampton 26 January 2012 Labour is being gentle on benefits cap by Amber Elliott 23 January 2012 Tom Watson on phone hacking and stepping down by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 PMQs goes back in time by Amber Elliott 18 January 2012 Tanni Grey-Thompson and welfare reform by

  • No more Top Totty' in Parliament Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:29
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS No more Top Totty' in Parliament by Caroline Crampton 02 Feb 2012 13:17 Kate Green MP has called for a beer called Top Totty' to be removed from sale in Strangers' Bar Related Articles Bill Cash : I call myself a eurorealist rather than a eurosceptic' by Caroline Crampton 26 January 2012 Labour is being gentle on benefits cap by Amber Elliott 23 January 2012 Tom Watson on phone hacking and stepping down by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 PMQs goes back in time by Amber Elliott 18 January 2012 Tanni Grey-Thompson and welfare reform by

  • Margaret Hodge makes an enemy Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:28
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Margaret Hodge makes an enemy by Ben Duckworth 02 Feb 2012 12:08 The PAC chair , whose success we've highlighted , now faces stern resistance from the civil service Getty Images Related Articles The agenda 02 February 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 Tanni Grey-Thompson and welfare reform by Caroline Crampton 18 January 2012 The return of Boris Island by Ben Duckworth 18 January 2012 Preview : Miliband for change by Caroline Crampton 19 December 2011 What would Labour have done by David

  • Margaret Hodge makes an enemy Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:26
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Margaret Hodge makes an enemy by Ben Duckworth 02 Feb 2012 12:08 The PAC chair , whose success we've highlighted , now faces stern resistance from the civil service Getty Images Related Articles The agenda 02 February 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 Tanni Grey-Thompson and welfare reform by Caroline Crampton 18 January 2012 The return of Boris Island by Ben Duckworth 18 January 2012 Preview : Miliband for change by Caroline Crampton 19 December 2011 What would Labour have done by David

  • The agenda Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:25
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The agenda 02 Feb 2012 07:29 Everything happening in politics today Related Articles Unparliamentary language dominates PMQs by Amber Elliott 01 February 2012 In appreciation of Jacob Rees-Mogg by Alexander Wickham 23 January 2012 Len McCluskey's intervention is a change of heart by Amber Elliott 17 January 2012 Fact-checker alert at PMQs by Amber Elliott 11 January 2012 Ed Miliband says , Bring it on' by Amber Elliott 10 January 2012 Who will lead the anti-independence fight by Amber Elliott 09 January 2012 What's happening Today The

  • The agenda Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:24
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The agenda 02 Feb 2012 07:29 Everything happening in politics today Related Articles Unparliamentary language dominates PMQs by Amber Elliott 01 February 2012 In appreciation of Jacob Rees-Mogg by Alexander Wickham 23 January 2012 Len McCluskey's intervention is a change of heart by Amber Elliott 17 January 2012 Fact-checker alert at PMQs by Amber Elliott 11 January 2012 Ed Miliband says , Bring it on' by Amber Elliott 10 January 2012 Who will lead the anti-independence fight by Amber Elliott 09 January 2012 What's happening Today The

  • While UKIP I march Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-02-03 01:15:23
    , Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Campaigns Campaigns Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS While UKIP , I march by Gawain Towler 02 Feb 2012 A former outsider has been slowly , silently gaining ground on the major parties in the opinion polls , says Gawain Towler . Watch out , here comes UKIP Related Articles Labour hold Feltham and Heston by Caroline Crampton 16 December 2011 The liberty of Thom Yorke and continental cheeses by Sadie Smith 12 December 2011 80mph speed limit is a classic case of coalition compromise by Caroline Crampton 29 September 2011 Tory jibes from grown up' Lib Dems by Amber Elliott 19

  • Government sends another signal that it's about to (again) increase our contribution to the IMF bailout fund

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:02:37

  • Let's not forget the EU's older and more familiar abominations

    Updated: 2012-02-02 09:35:48
    Coriolanus is not an easy play for politicians to watch. From the moment he walks onto the stage, the eponymous general flaunts his fierce contempt for the electorate: What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs? His refusal to be polite to voters leads not only [...]

  • Introducing the Conservative Baldemorts

    Updated: 2012-02-02 07:26:55

  • Dark clouds gathering over Downing Street. Storms possible. Number 10 don't forecast Tory majority.

    Updated: 2012-02-02 07:13:55

  • Ireland and the United Kingdom have never been closer

    Updated: 2012-02-01 08:45:35
    Like most British people, I love Ireland. It’s a separate country, but it’s not really foreign. The Irish talk as we talk, dress as we dress, eat as we eat (and, tragically, drink as we drink). We watch the same television programmes, follow the same football teams, shop at the same chains. We share that [...]

  • Let's remove honours by X-Factor

    Updated: 2012-02-01 08:26:43

  • Some good news from (and for) David Willetts, who declares that "our University revolution has only just begun"

    Updated: 2012-02-01 08:01:59

  • PMQs: Miliband attacks on health and banking, but Conservatives launch benefits cap counter-attack

    Updated: 2012-02-01 00:57:51

  • The black squirrel project

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:02:48
    A black squirrel was first reported (in the wild) back in 1912 – in either Bedfordshire  or Hertfordshire , according which article you read!  That particular black squirrel had probably escaped from the ‘menagerie’ of a ‘well to do’ collector.  Victorians, and to a lesser extent Edwardians, were great collectors of things – both living [...]

  • New Northern Ireland Conservative Party formed in challenge to UUP

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:32:49

  • Has Cameron's veto been diluted? What do you think of Nick Clegg's tax plans?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 11:48:04

  • Can Nick Boles and the new Tory generation help defeat the politics of envy?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 08:20:05

  • Cameron beats Miliband and Clegg in YouGov survey of leadership qualities

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:13:49

  • The veto has been dropped; the only option now is an In/Out referendum

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:35:05
    So now we know: no repatriation, no renegotiation, business as usual. December's 'veto' turns out to be nothing of the kind; at best, it is a partial opt-out. Britain had asked for concessions in return for allowing the other member states to use EU institutions and structures for their fiscal compact. No such concessions were [...]

  • Teflon Cameron? His luck has held over RBS (so far). Will it also hold over Europe?

    Updated: 2012-01-30 07:52:35

  • It's taxpayer-backed remuneration that's outrageous, not bonuses

    Updated: 2012-01-29 17:37:41
    Are you upset about Stephen Hester's pay deal? If so, peer into your soul and ask yourself why. Do you believe he has done a rotten job, and deserves to be punished for failure? Do you think his bonus is somehow sneaky, or not in the spirit of his contract? Do you feel his incentives [...]

  • Tory voters want a mansions tax. Mail and Sun oppose Hester's bonus. Is Cameron on the wrong side of the wealth issue?

    Updated: 2012-01-29 09:02:04

  • Has Cameron's EU veto died?

    Updated: 2012-01-28 09:02:56

  • Archbishop of York compares Cameron to dictator on gay marriage

    Updated: 2012-01-28 00:11:52

  • The solution to the euro crisis? A European credit rating agency!

    Updated: 2012-01-27 13:48:27
    How do you suppose MEPs plan to get out of Europe's economic mess? By acknowledging that the single currency was a rotten idea to begin with? By allowing stricken economies to default, decouple and devalue? Nope. They plan to regulate, or even censor, American credit rating agencies; and, at the same time, to create a European [...]

  • To Sayeeda Warsi falls the duty of countering Nick Clegg... and defending Margaret Thatcher's tax system

    Updated: 2012-01-27 10:46:22

  • David Cameron strongly criticises the €urozone economic model and reiterates his veto decision in Davos speech

    Updated: 2012-01-27 08:24:45

  • For the good of this government's health Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-01-26 07:16:50
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Opinion Opinion Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS For the good of this government's health by George Pascoe-Watson 26 Jan 2012 No 10 is desperate to stop the NHS becoming a toxic issue . For 2012, it has created a neutralisation' plan Related Articles The people's party has been disconnected by Dan Hodges 26 January 2012 TP's inbox 25 January 2012 2012 : London's Year and probably Boris's by Andrew Hawkins 25 January 2012 The Cameron curse by James Lyons 24 January 2012 Time for some ethics in business by Lisa Nandy MP 09 January 2012 The year that will keep the PM up at night

  • The people's party has been disconnected Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-01-26 07:16:48
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Opinion Opinion Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The people's party has been disconnected by Dan Hodges 26 Jan 2012 Labour desperately wants to rebuild its relationship with the working class , but who are they Related Articles For the good of this government's health by George Pascoe-Watson 26 January 2012 TP's inbox 25 January 2012 2012 : London's Year and probably Boris's by Andrew Hawkins 25 January 2012 The Cameron curse by James Lyons 24 January 2012 Time for some ethics in business by Lisa Nandy MP 09 January 2012 Do all-women shortlists work by Jacqui Smith and

  • Good Whigs should support the Union

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:35:52
    Finding myself in Whitehall with twenty minutes to spare this afternoon, I ducked into the Banqueting House, spread my coat on the floor and lay on it, staring at the ceiling. All this talk of sundering my country has affected me, and I wanted to cheer myself up by looking at Rubens' massive canvas celebrating [...]

  • Just imagine if the Iron Lady had got the big call wrong

    Updated: 2012-01-24 10:34:20
    I sense that the share price of Margaret Thatcher anecdotes is peaking, so I’m offloading some stock. Ten years ago, the great woman came to lunch with a group of Telegraph writers. Determined not to ask a sententious question about public policy, I instead blurted out: ‘Is there anything worth watching on television at the [...]

  • Who'd want to join the EU at a time like this?

    Updated: 2012-01-23 14:58:21
    Croatians, apparently. Two thirds of them, at any rate, on a turnout of 42 per cent, which pretty much wraps things up. I'm not sure I'd have accepted the terms offered – among other things, Croatia is obliged to join the euro – but it wasn't up to me. That, in a sense, is the whole [...]

  • We're being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF

    Updated: 2012-01-21 22:24:27
    First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it's the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons, [...]

  • Who will lead the anti-independence fight Total Politics

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:29:40
    Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Who will lead the anti-independence fight by Amber Elliott 09 Jan 2012 14:46 With the PM speeding up the timetable for a potential Scottish independence referendum , should those who object start to formalise their campaign Getty Images Related Articles Could Dan Jarvis's face be what Labour needs by Caroline Crampton 13 January 2012 Does immigration cause unemployment by Matt Cavanagh 11 January 2012 Fact-checker alert at PMQs by Amber Elliott 11 January 2012 The battle lines are drawn on a Scottish referendum by Caroline Crampton 11

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