Politics Summary: Wednesday, January 20th

Sign up to receive this politics summary by email before 9am every morning The Guardian reports that, “Lord Mandelson has washed his hands of responsibility for Cadbury’s £11.9bn takeover by the American conglomerate Kraft, insisting it was a decision fortest

Evening Standard interview: a clarification

I gave an interview to the Evening Standard last week which is in today’s paper. Generally it’s a fair piece and reflects my views on Iraq (articulated previously on this blog) and other issues. But one line that I tooktest

Politics Summary: Monday, January 18th

The next generation of Conservative MPs do not share David Cameron’s “professed commitment” to tackling climate change. In a survey of Conservative candidates in the most winnable 141 target seats for ConservativeHome covered in the FT, “Reducing Britain’s carbon footprint”test

Cameron “echoes” Tony Blair in Reading

Left Foot Forward contributer, Mark Thompson, has a fascinating account of a Cameron Direct event in Reading yesterday evening on his Mark Reckons blog. Thompson describes Cameron as “a very impressive individual in the flesh” and that there were “verytest

Politics Summary: Friday, January 15th

David Cameron will today publish plans to “join up” the international development and defence budgets as part of his party’s National Security Strategy. The FT reports that, “A Conservative government will examine shifting money from the international aid budget totest

Dave from the block

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