by Ben Duckworth / 04 Jun 2013
Ben Duckworth speaks to skills minister Matt Hancock about his leadership style, and vision for business training and apprenticeships
by Ben Duckworth / 13 May 2013
Ben Duckworth speaks to Hay Festival organiser Peter Florence about the highlights he’s looking forward to, and why he wants to dispel some myths
by Ben Duckworth / 24 Apr 2013
by Ben Duckworth / 14 Mar 2013
Ben Duckworth reviews Peter Morgan’s new play The Audience, an amusing and intriguing imagining of the Queen’s mysterious meetings with her prime ministers throughout the ages
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by Ben Duckworth / 21 Feb 2013
Harriett Baldwin, vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary Russia group discusses the need to speak frankly with this vast, fast-growing country that is a potentially huge market for British goods and business opportunities
by Ben Duckworth / 17 Jan 2013
The transport secretary speaks to Ben Duckworth about being back in the limelight, his long experience in the whips’ office and why nothing in politics compares to his scariest moment
by Ben Duckworth / 26 Nov 2012
She helped steer through a winning Olympics bid and saw the project through to an overwhelming national success. Ben Duckworth meets the former culture secretary and London 2012 minister who reflects on the merits of political loyalty and is now looking forward to a new political role
by Ben Duckworth / 08 Nov 2012
Ben Duckworth talks to the shadow pensions minister about the new People’s Pension, if it is the right policy for UK workers, and whether his party is where it needs to be
by Ben Duckworth / 30 Apr 2013
Political betting is a big business, and it pays for gambling pundits to keep their ears to the ground, but how do you maximise your wins and minimise your losses? Ben Duckworth finds out
by Ben Duckworth / 18 Mar 2013
Ben Duckworth discovers that a group of ambitious, frustrated backbenchers could be aiming for the top seat. Why wait for the big beast?
by Ben Duckworth / 18 Feb 2013
The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury talks to Ben Duckworth about her concerns for the economy, how her frontbench colleagues are faring, and why her chess skills help her tackle politics. Photos by Alisa Connan
by Ben Duckworth / 24 Jan 2013
The Conservative leadership may hope that the EU doesn't continue to dominate but David Cameron's speech has inspired Eurosceptic MPs to believe his timetable won't last.
by Ben Duckworth / 10 Dec 2012
The Conservative chairman has a mission – to deliver a majority for the Conservative party in 2015. Ben Duckworth discovers how he is a more complex individual than anyone had first realised
by Ben Duckworth / 19 Nov 2012
The December 2012 issue of Total Politics includes Tessa Jowell revealing the role loyalty plays in Westminster
by Ben Duckworth / 08 Nov 2012
The Independent on Sunday columnist discusses his love of questions to which the answer is “No!”
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"The prime minister has said he does not believe that statutory legislation is necessary to achieve the principles outlined by Leveson."
"The prime minister has said he does not believe that statutory legislation is necessary to achieve the principles outlined
"We have a growing relationship with the EU as an institution, which has an increasing voice in the world,
"Just one day after their botched relaunch, even people at the very heart of Cameron's government are losing faith
"The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since
"Our mission is clear: to get Britain living within its means and earning its way in the world once
"Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it
"The central premise of my campaign for president was to change the tax code that was too skewed towards
"We have paid a very heavy price but I think the reason for coming here in the first place,
"Public servants should not be rewarded for failure. But that was exactly what happened when the BBC Trust paid
