Once the poster boy for David Cameron’s ‘vote blue, go green’ campaign, the pin-up turned rebel might not even be a Conservative MP after the next election. Interview by Rob Wilson. Photos by Alisa Connan
A select committee report calls for a cut down on switching positions within government
A top criminal lawyer decries the legal aid cuts, criticising the government's 'cheap, ill-informed jibes' at the legal profession
As reports of chemical weapons use emerge from an escalating conflict, will our politicians change tack on Syria?
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Goldsmith: What does Cameronism mean?
Articles by Rob Wilson / 14 Jun 2013
This article is from the July 2013 issue of Total Politics
Only a few years ago, it would have been very easy to characterise Zac Goldsmith as the young, good-looking and raffish playboy of British politics. It’s clear he still makes the ladies, young or old, go tongue-tied or weak at the knees (or both), that he’s extraordinarily wealthy and well-connected, and has had…
Legal aid: For fairness, play the ball, not the man
Blog by Stephen Parkinson / 14 Jun 2013
A top criminal lawyer decries the legal aid cuts, criticising the government's 'cheap, ill-informed jibes'...
Coming to terms with criminality
Blog by Ashley Ames / 13 Jun 2013
According to the Ipsos MORI Issues Index, our concern over crime is at a two...
History: Debate from the vault: Maggie's last stand
Nik Darlington looks back at Margaret Thatcher’s last appearance in the House of Commons in...
Life: Off the record: Researchers' stories
Our anonymous Westminster staffers sort MPs into 'saints' and 'sinners' according to their manners around...
Papa don't preach, I'm an MP too...
Articles by Jess Bowie / 10 Jun 2013
Does having an MP for a mum or dad mark you out for politics too?...
'Yer quite fit for an MP wotsit': Jess Asato on the road
Campaigns 06 Jun 2013
Jess Asato shares the ups and downs of a PPC...
A new approach to the childcare ratio problem
Blog by Imogen Parker / 06 Jun 2013
With the government's plans to relax childcare ratios 'dead in the water', here is an...
History: 1983 election: Alliance and skirmish
Thirty years ago Margaret Thatcher won her biggest electoral landslide, but its preparatory scuffles were...
The pursuit of happiness
Opinion by Zachary Courser / 04 Jun 2013
Zachary Courser puts emotion above GDP in the measure of a society’s prosperity. It could...
The trouble with reshuffles
Blog by Justin Cash / 14 Jun 2013
A select committee report calls for a cut down on switching positions within government...
Syria crosses the "red line"
Blog by Emily Stacey / 14 Jun 2013
As reports of chemical weapons use emerge from an escalating conflict, will our politicians change...
Nature: necessity or luxury in housing?
Blog by Seb McCarthy / 13 Jun 2013
As calls for more affordable housing abound, we may be forgetting the basic value of...
Life: Angus MacNeil on sheep & Scottish independence
The SNP member enjoys lambing in the Hebrides...
Kick it into the long grassroots
Campaigns by Andrew Allison / 10 Jun 2013
From taxes on beers to town hall spending, the TaxPayers’ Alliance is engaging its grassroots...
Life: Chris White MP on the idealism of JFK
The Conservative MP for Warwick and Leamington on why he loves An Unfinished Life: John F Kennedy...
Previews: From Salford to the Congo
Blog by Toby Youell / 06 Jun 2013
This month's culture picks for politicos...
Life: Battling Bosworth onto a page
Chris Skidmore, MP and author, shares the pains and literary pleasures of writing a book...
MPs call on Lord Hall to commission 'The Real Apprentice'
Blog by Justin Cash / 05 Jun 2013
Apprenticeship ambassador Gordon Birtwistle and local MP Sarah Teather meet young apprentices in Willesden Green,...
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