Dorries: “I totally admire Sarah Palin”
Tory backbencher Nadine ‘Mad Nad’ Dorries thinks Sarah Palin is “amazing” and “totally” admires her.
Shamik Das
Evan Harris: Progressive coalition in 2015 “if the arithmetic is there”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris has said his party and Labour need to be in a postion to form a progressive coalition after the next election.
David quits – leaving 49 to fight for 19 places
Left Foot Forward is coordinating a poll for readers of left wing blogs to find out who they’d like in the shadow cabinet – vote by reading this blog.
Labour leader’s speech live web chat
Join us for our live leader’s speech web chat from the Labour Party conference in Manchester as Mr Miliband takes the stage.
Minister calls for “school sport revolution” – yet DfE to face £670m of cuts
Children’s minister Tim Loughton has called for a “school sports revolution” – yet the coalition is planning to cut £670 million from the schools budget.
It’s Ken v Boris the rematch
Ken Livingstone beat Oona King decisively to secure the Labour nomination – 69%:31% – and will battle Boris Johnson for the London Mayoralty in 2012.
Voting over – but will the race come down to MPs’ second preferences?
With voting now over, it looks like the Labour leadership race will be neck-and-neck – and could come down to Abbott/Balls/Burnham supporters’ 2nd preferences.
Clegg set to face tough time over health, schools and spending cuts
As Nick Clegg prepares to address delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference today, he faces discord over health, Trident, schools and spending cuts.
Just 1-in-3 Lib Dem voters support Coalition cuts
Only 29 per cent of Liberal Democrat voters support the scale of the government’s spending cuts, according to a poll in this morning’s Times.
Balls turns fire on “brazen hypocrisy” of teflon Teather
Ed Balls took time out from holding Michael Gove to account at the weekend to turn his ammo on Gove’s deputy Sarah Teather, who has thus far escaped censure for the schools cuts – and who it now emerges lobbied her boss to give preferential treatment to schools in her Brent Central constituency and spare them the Building Schools for the Future axe.