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.
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Comment: Unless Charles wants to stand for election, he should keep his views private
Jonathan Orde examines the constitutional implications of the Prince Charles letters farrago.
Watch: Cameron, quizzed on ‘secret’ Brooks emails, says: “I’m not going to answer”
David Cameron today point blank refused to answer a question on whether he would publish ‘secret’ emails between himself and Rebekah Brooks.
Watch: PMQs: ‘A night in the cell for yobs, a night at the Carlton Club for Mitchell’
Ed Miliband went on the attack over ‘pleb gate’ at the first post-conference season Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament today, reports Shamik Das.
Watch: Theresa May fails to condemn Andrew “you’re f-ing plebs” Mitchell
Not once, not twice, but three times in Parliament today Theresa May was offered the chance and declined to condemn disgraced Tory chief whip Andrew Mitchell.
The ‘generals for hire’ affair follows the same lobbying scandal pattern – nothing changes
It won’t be long before another lobbying scandal, writes Tamasin Cave of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency following the ‘generals for hire’ scandal.
Watch: Zephaniah on Boris: ‘He may seem like a buffoon, but he’s a very dangerous person’
Benjamin Zephaniah says Boris Johnson “may seem like a kind of buffoon”, but is a “very, very dangerous person”; BBC Question Time, 12th October, 2012.
Con 2012: Thatcher thought privilege caused Britain’s decline
Margaret Thatcher thought privilege caused Britain’s decline, writes Cormac Hollingsworth; David Cameron needs to explain why he disagrees with her.
Top of the Policies: Promoting participation, curing cynicism and antidoting apathy
Chair of Pragmatic Radicalism John Slinger looks ahead to the next Top of the Policies event on industry policy.
Con 2012: Cameron’s speech corkers: On the economy, the NHS, the EU, housing benefit…
A look at the corkers in David Cameron’s Conservative Party Conference speech today, on the economy, the NHS, the EU, housing benefit, child poverty…