Ed Jacobs
Ed writes on devolved and local government. He works as a political consultant at the only Northern based consultancy, The Public Affairs Company. Ed has previously helped establish and run a student news website therundown.co.uk.
Labour launches concerted effort to tackle Scotland’s alcohol “time bomb”
Scottish Labour has launched a concerted effort to cap the amount of caffeine in some alcoholic drinks such as Buckfast wine.
The week outside Westminster
Ed Jacobs looks back at the week's events in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Scots Labour leader: Alex Salmond “in office but not in power”
Alex Salmond has pledged to put his Government’s budget at the heart of the SNP’s programme leading up to next May’s elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Welsh Tories express “great concern” over Coalition’s constituency shake-up
Two Welsh Conservative MPs have expressed their concerns over coalition plans to cut the number of Parliamentary constituencies. The Government […]
UUP seek to keep Sinn Fein away from the top job
The Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Danny Kennedy has called for the rules by which the First Minister […]
Scottish Conservative cut loose by Cameron
When David Cameron took the reins of government, within a week of doing so, he made a point of visiting each of the devolved governments, seeking to highlight his new mantra of respect between Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont. Little did they know; it now transpires that the respect is not, it seems, applicable to relations between Conservatives in London and Scotland.