How will Labour’s EU budget cut vote affect relations with the Lib Dems?
Gareth Epps, co-chair of the Social Liberal Forum, writes about the consequences of Labour’s opportunism on Europe in last night’s budget vote.
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Clegg: “Dishonest, hypocritical” Labour behaving like a party “not serious about government”
Nick Clegg today attacked Labour for their “dishonest, hypocritical” decision to vote with the Tory EU rebels last night, reports Shamik Das.
Cable’s memory problems: 11:07: ‘Growth committee’s never met’… 12:05: ‘It’s met twice’
Vince Cable is quizzed on the cabinet’s mysterious Growth Implementation Committee.
Advice? What advice? Salmond finds himself in more hot water over EU ‘lies’
Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon found themselves embroiled deeper in the political storm on whether they sought legal advice over Scotland’s EU membership.
Conrad Black: Angry, brash, unrepentant… and coming to a screen near you
Conrad Black, felon, fraudster, crusader against the US justice system, over here and on tele, protesting his innocene and flogging his book.
Does Lansley think global warming is a “bourgeois, left-wing” conspiracy?
Andrew Lansley yesterday failed to condemn a Tory council leader who said global warming “may not exist” and was dreamt up by “bourgeois left-wing academics”.
More and more of Cameron’s “hard-working people” are reliant on Housing Benefit
More and more working people are reliant on Housing Benefit – contrary to what the prime minister claims.
“Pleb and buried”; “On yer bike”; “Great train snobbery”… Mitchell, Osborne, avert your eyes!
Saturday’s #PlebGate front pages make uncomfortable reading for Andrew Mitchell and George Osborne… Enjoy!
Trump, Salmond, Megrahi and the eroding of Scottish democracy
Donald Trump’s plans to build a golf resort expose the shortfalls of democracy in Scotland.
Campbell: 2015 “will be the first genuine social media election”
Alastair Campbell last night said he believed the 2015 general election will be the first “genuine social media election”, reports Shamik Das.