Farage slammed for ‘parroting the Kremlin line’ over Ukraine troops stance
“Can we trust someone who is so keen to parrot the Kremlin line…?”
‘Reform don’t care about working class kids’: TUC slams Nigel Farage for opposing lifting of two-child cap
“We know what his real priorities are…Reform don’t care about working class kids or their families.”
Nigel Farage says Reform candidate who told David Lammy to ‘go home’ should apologise, but stops short of sacking him
Farage called the racial slur Chris Parry made about the deputy prime minister “over the top”
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Legal aid changes will allow abuses of power by public authorities against the most vulnerable
Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling withdrew his proposal to deny those accused in the criminal courts and reliant on legal aid the right to choose who will represent them.
We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
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Who watches the watchmen?: the case for surveillance juries
On Monday the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at demos.
Five reasons the privatisation of Royal Mail is bad policy
Later today ministers will announce the final details of plans for the privatisation of Royal Mail.
The Left must resist partisanship on extremism
Extremism may never be too far from the gaze of the topical political commentator, but events in Woolwich and subsequent EDL activity have ensured a stark rise in the column inches expended in service to the issue.
Labour and the unions: Now the ball is in the Tories’ court
In the wake of today’s speech Ed Miliband will face the biggest test of his leadership thus far – and it is a test of his own making.
Five crazy ideas from the Tories’ new policy chiefs
Last week it was announced that the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) was to lead the Conservative Party’s policy development. The aim, according to the CPS press release, is to “feed through new ideas for both immediate implementation and the next Conservative manifesto in 2015”.
England by numbers and the warning to the left
Since the election of the SNP to power at Holyrood in 2007, questions of national identity have remained almost solely in the hands of Scotland.