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Friday, January 22, 2010

Guest Post: What Scott Brown Means for America

Daniel Forrester is a good friend of mine from Washington DC. In this guest post, he analyses Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts ea...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Daley Dozen: Thursday

1. Tory Radio questions Northern Rock giving £10 million to Newcastle United. 2. Jon Craig says the plot thickens over when the Commons Cl...

Was THAT Poster a Success?

Stratford Conservative has written a blogpost questioning whether this poster has backfired on the Conservatives. He thinks not. I tend to ...

When Mo Mowlam Grabbed My Bum

I wonder if the new drama about Mo Mowlam will feature the touching photo she had taken with me and my partner at the Labour conference in B...

Election Night Bill Needed

Yesterday, I the Electoral Commission reported that only 325 constituencies have so far said for definite that their counts will be held on ...

Lazy Labour MPs Vote for Longer Holiday

Yesterday evening MPs voted themselves a 12 day break in February - from 10th to the 22nd. Well, I say MPs voted - actually only Labour MPs ...

Oona King: I Want to be an MP Again

My Total Politics colleague Joe Dyke has a bit of a scoop on the Party Lines blo g. He reveals that Oona King wants to be an MP again. Or y...

Quote of the Day: West Ham Edition

Britain is becoming the West Ham of the world economy – spiralling debts, living beyond its means, and about to get a David to take it over...

Mandelson Achieves His FO Dream - Sort Of

Lord Mandelson has finally achieved his dream. For one day only he is taking over Foreign Office responsibilities. Well, in the House of Lor...

Tories Have More BME Candidates Than Labour

Yesterday, Operation Black Vote eulogised about the 30 BME candidates Labour has standing for them at the next election. It was very strange...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Daley Dozen: Wednesday

1. Militant Medical Nurse is not a happy angel. At all. 2. Iain Martin advises David Cameron to mind his manners. 3. Paul Waugh reviews S...

Brown: Dam(n)ed by His Own Dysfunctionality

There was a further sign of the dysfunctionality at the heart of Number 10 at PMQs this lunchtime, or perhaps it was a sign of Gordon Brown...

Labour's Desperate Tactics: No 94

Alan Johnson is a Labour politician I respect. Well, I used to. But what are we to make of a politician who comes out with a sentence like t...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Daley Dozen: Tuesday

1. Jeff Peel wonders if the UUP/Conservative relationship is at breaking point. 2. Adam Boulton found Geoff Hoon's evidence straangely...

The Nasty Party, Or One Bad Apple?

Earlier I cheekily blogged about the LibDems little local difficulties in Plymouth. Tonight, Cathy Newman (who we all call 'scoop' n...

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Bercow Issues Clarion Call Over Election Night Counts

Well done John Bercow. Today he basically told the Prime Minister to sort the issue of election night counts. As readers will know, up to on...

Fear & Loathing Among Plymouth LibDems

It looks like the true Nasty Party is alive and kicking in Plymouth (that's the LibDems, for the dim among you). Cowley Street has had t...

Gordon Grandstands Over Yemen Conference

Sir Patrick Cormack asked a PQ yesterday on the Yemen conference Gordon Brown announced in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack in D...

Advice From Chris Mullin

If you are a parliamentary candidate at the next election, you could do worse than clicking HERE to read Chris Mullin's column in today...

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