Caroline Crampton
Staff Writer

Caroline Crampton
Staff Writer

Caroline is a staff writer at Total Politics, contributing features, conducting interviews and leading the charge on the blog. Formerly, she worked at the New Statesman and has freelanced for the New York Times, the Times, and various local papers. Caroline trained at City University in London.

Jacob Rees-Mogg and 'floccinaucinihilipilification'

by Caroline Crampton / 22 Feb 2012

Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Jacob Rees-Mogg once again showed off his eccentric and enormous vocabulary

Weekend reads | 17 February

by Caroline Crampton / 17 Feb 2012

Recommendations for the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend

Tony Lloyd MP to run as Manchester police commissioner

by Caroline Crampton / 14 Feb 2012

The chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party is to hand his nomination papers to the Labour Party today

Up with women, down with ‘golden skirts’

Up with women, down with ‘golden skirts’

by Caroline Crampton / 09 Feb 2012

The prime minister’s interest in Scandinavian gender equality laws is good, but we need to avoid importing the Scandinavian opposition’s derogatory language with it

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Dickens’s Parliament is oddly familiar

Dickens’s Parliament is oddly familiar

by Caroline Crampton / 07 Feb 2012

He might be celebrated as a novelist, but Dickens started off as a parliamentary sketch writer, and Parliament in his day sounds remarkably similar to it is now

What’s the point of the House of Lords?

by Caroline Crampton / 02 Feb 2012

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

Purely academic

Purely academic

by Caroline Crampton / 01 Feb 2012

Schools minister Nick Gibb is a man on a mission to close the gap between rich and poor in the education system.  In between battling the ideologues, he’s making quiet progress on the coalition’s extension of the academy programme, finds Caroline Crampton

When is a treaty not a treaty?

by Caroline Crampton / 31 Jan 2012

David Cameron attempts to reassure MPs that he's protected British interests in Europe, but his insistence on the difference between a treaty and an agreement is hard to follow

Friday's terrible Twitter tedium

Friday's terrible Twitter tedium

by Caroline Crampton / 27 Jan 2012

Lots of MPs use social media to great effect the rest of the week. Why does it all go wrong on Fridays?

A long-overdue PMQs success for Ed Miliband

A long-overdue PMQs success for Ed Miliband

by Caroline Crampton / 25 Jan 2012

The Labour leader pulled off a noticeably improved PMQs performance with the help of some disappointing GDP figures

Lansley plays hide and seek at health questions

by Caroline Crampton / 21 Feb 2012

The health secretary lets his ministerial team bear the brunt of the attacks on the Health and Social Care bill

Charlie Brooker's Sun poem

by Caroline Crampton / 16 Feb 2012

Brooker's rhyming list of things or people The Sun has 'witch-hunted' is worth a watch

Weekend reads | 10 February

by Caroline Crampton / 10 Feb 2012

Recommendations for the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend

Time to stamp out the trolls, says MP

Time to stamp out the trolls, says MP

by Caroline Crampton / 08 Feb 2012

Online bullying and abuse is widely acknowledged to be a serious problem, but a nightmare for prosecutors. Steve Rotheram MP is determined to make sure justice gets done

Huhne charged over speeding penalty claims

by Caroline Crampton / 03 Feb 2012

The energy and climate secretary is to face charges over allegations that his ex-wife took speeding points on his behalf

No more 'Top Totty' in Parliament?

No more 'Top Totty' in Parliament?

by Caroline Crampton / 02 Feb 2012

Kate Green MP has called for a beer called 'Top Totty' to be removed from sale in Strangers' Bar

Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood

by Caroline Crampton / 31 Jan 2012

Former RBS chief executive is stripped of his knighthood by the forfeiture committee

Weekend reads | 27 Jan 2012

by Caroline Crampton / 27 Jan 2012

Recommentations of the best long-form writing you should be reading this weekend

Bill Cash: ‘I call myself a eurorealist rather than a eurosceptic’

Bill Cash: ‘I call myself a eurorealist rather than a eurosceptic’

by Caroline Crampton / 26 Jan 2012

Ahead of an unusual Commons debate on Europe, Caroline Crampton talks to eurosceptic champion Bill Cash MP

Cable’s quartet of measures on executive pay

Cable’s quartet of measures on executive pay

by Caroline Crampton / 23 Jan 2012

The business secretary this afternoon set out the government’s measures to curb excessive executive pay

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