Fox’s sliminess shows how much we need lobbying regulation
Tamasin Cave of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency argues that Liam Fox’s impropriety shows why we need to ensure lobbying becomes a well-regulated industry.
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Grayling dragged into Fox/Werritty scandal – are Osborne, Gove and Hague next?
Employment minister Chris Grayling was dragged down into the increasingly murky depths of the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal today, reports Shamik Das.
Weak Cameron will struggle to fire Fox
Liam Fox is a threat to David Cameron, vulnerable, damaging to his government and bringing politics into disrepute – but the PM may be too weak to get rid of him.
Cameron’s speech churns out the old Tory myths
Cameron’s speech turned out to be a trotting out of well-worn Tory tropes on spending, deregulation, family values, NHS reform, disability benefit reform and so much else. But there’s a lot of spin obscuring the truth.
Tories, Tesco, vino and the presumption in favour of development
Tamasin Cave of Spinwatch exposes the cosy links between Tesco and the planning minister Bob Neill, given the government’s planning reforms in favour of development.
Tory press office twits should go back to spin school
The Tory press office took to Twitter last night to try to denigrate Ed Miliband’s conference speech, telling a few porkies on the way, reports Shamik Das.
Recycled Tory attacks show Clegg has gone native
Kevin Meagher on how Nick Clegg’s recycling of rhetoric from Cameron signals a new level of cooperation between the Lib Dems and Tories when Labour-bashing.
Clegg’s speech: Long on dramatic pauses, short on facts
Nick Clegg’s spin on issues such as the NHS, the environment and child detention didn’t quite match the facts, in his Liberal Democrat party conference speech.
Clegg attacks Labour/union link – but keeps schtum on Tory/City links
Nick Clegg will attack “vested interests” in his speech this afternoon, hitting out at Labour’s union link – yet saying nothing about the Tories’ City links.
Britain continues to pay lip service to human rights when exporting weapons
The UK will continue to play lip service to human rights concerns when exporting weapons, writes Ben Mitchell.