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Westminster transfer deadline day*
by Dylan Sharpe / 01 Sep 2011 10:14
In an effort to get the masses more interested in politics, Parliament has taken a cue from football and instituted a transfer deadline day, after which Party leaders are unable to make alterations to their cabinets. With just hours to go, BBC and Sky reporters sit outside the offices of the major political parties and have frantic roving reporters ready to jump in a helicopter to secure the first word on the latest transfers.
Clegg: ‘The genie is out of the bottle’
by Caroline Crampton / 22 Aug 2011 13:53
Speaking at the British Council, Nick Clegg praised the group of young people assembled there from Tunisia and Egypt for their “unusual mix of idealism and pragmatism”. In his own speech to them, he reflected just this combination of attitudes.
“Assad is as irrelevant to Syria's future as Gaddafi is to Libya's,” he declared. “The genie is out of the bottle. Eventually these regimes will have to make space for the people who
The riots were a missed opportunity for Cameron
by Charlotte Henry / 16 Aug 2011 12:35
The recent riots across the UK have forced everyone to reassess our society, our communities, and our politics. Indeed, it has got me to reassess some of my thoughts on our leading politicians. I am a supporter of this coalition government, I believe it is doing many positive, liberal things, and has been ably led by someone who I consider to be a fairly liberal conservative. However, David Cameron's response to the riots has
Nick Clegg's riot work programme
by Amber Elliott / 16 Aug 2011 10:47
Today Nick Clegg outlined a programme of rehabilitation and community payback for those involved in the England riots last week.
Labour leader Ed Miliband chose to speak about the riots at his old school yesterday, while David Cameron delivered a speech on suitable punishments in front of a wall of colourful graffiti.
The deputy prime minister's setting was rather different. Surrounded by oil paintings with scenes from Captain Cook’s second voyage, the
The riots in quotes
by Fern Tomlinson / 08 Aug 2011 11:58
Monday:
David Lammy MP: “For every person on camera throwing stones there will be 1,000 others off camera rebuilding what has been destroyed. This is the Tottenham I was born in, the Tottenham I grew up in and that I live in”. (Mirror)
Nick de Bois MP: Those involved in the riots “moved into residential streets once the police got near and got into Golf GTIs to speed to their next
Phone hacking - the winners and losers
by Charlotte Henry / 20 Jul 2011 14:39
There is nothing like a good old crisis to separate the wheat from the chaff, and phone hacking has been no different. Who then, has come out looking good from this fiasco, and who hasn’t?
Ed Miliband: Pushed his luck a bit when he implied Cameron should stand down as PM, but for the most part Ed M has done what he needed to do, and made sure that the issue
Baroness D’Souza elected new Lord Speaker
by Gareth Hill / 19 Jul 2011 09:32
Baroness D’Souza has been announced as the new Lord Speaker of the House of Lords. The vote held on 13 July, revealed today, showed that she led in every round as four candidates were eliminated. In the final round she won with 296 votes to 285 for Lord Colwyn.
The former scientist, who worked for such institutions as Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine and the UN, entered the House in 2004
Clegg is down, but not out
by Martin Shapland / 15 Jul 2011 00:00
For the last 14 months the Liberal Democrats have been in rough seas, tossed about over the waves of tuition fees and the AV referendum and sailing dangerously close to the rocks of electoral oblivion, its erstwhile supporters stood on the shoreline trying to decide whether to send aid or berate the party for losing its way in the fog.
The direction of travel was a deliberate choice. In May 2010
Hacked off, but for how long?
by Hannah Breeze / 12 Jul 2011 09:37
It has been a bad week for the reputation of journalism. As scandals go, the News International phone hacking has not only made history, but has plunged the industry into serious disrepute with the general public and politicians alike.
Although tabloid journalists are currently holding the top spot for the most disrespected profession at the moment, bankers and politicians have themselves shared the title too.
But is this the scandal whose repercussions
Nick Clegg plays the joker
by Amber Elliott / 16 Jun 2011 16:42
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was in a combative mood at the parliamentary press gallery lunch today.
Particularly worthy of note were his jokes – including one that may not please energy secretary Chris Huhne.
"Chris Huhne I know has been put under a lot of pressure in the media," he told the press. "I just want to say that whatever people say or think about Chris Huhne, I really don't know
Consequences of the NHS reforms for the coalition
by Ben Duckworth / 14 Jun 2011 12:48
David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Andrew Lansley have announced their response to the Future Forum report on the NHS. Speaking to various MPs in Parliament this morning revealed just how serious the long-term consequences of the NHS reforms could be.
“You can smell the burning rubber” was one description of this particular U-turn. Other Conservatives I spoke to dismissed the Lib Dem claim of victory as “bad politics which they will regret”.
Why ‘Sunday phone call’ coalition government must be abandoned
by Jim McConalogue / 08 Jun 2011 15:03
It is no coincidence that just as a praising technical analysis of the coalition government was published by the Constitution Unit last week stating that “Cabinet and cabinet committees now meet regularly, but these are mostly forums for dealing with interdepartmental issues rather than specifically coalition issues”, it was revealed to those researchers that David Cameron and Nick Clegg make key coalition decisions in a regular weekly Sunday phone call.
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