Conservative party conference
Cameron’s Corkers: Exposing the PM’s miscellany of untruths and u-turns
Today, Left Foot Forward launches a new website, Cameron's Corkers - cameronscorkers.org - chronicling the untruths and u-turns of Tory leader David Cameron.
Polls cast pall over Cameron and Osborne as Tory conference begins
As the Conservative Party Conference begins in Birmingham today, the latest polls provide the grimmest of backdrops for David Cameron and George Osborne.
Cameron’s central argument on debt is wrong; Labour needs to find a way to say so
Speechwriting expert Asher Dresner reviews David Cameron’s Tory conference speech yesterday, focusing on his central argument about the debt, and why he is wrong.
Boris’s policies are making London less safe
Andrew Dismore, Labour’s GLA candidate for Camden and Barnet, looks at London Mayor Boris Johnson’s failure to get to grops with crime in the capital.
Yet again, Tories fawn over the far right
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern reports on Finnish fascist Timo Soini’s presence at the Conservative party fringe in Manchester this week.
Osborne: Speaking truth to wealth and power? Really?
George Osborne vowed “to speak truth to power and wealth” at the Tory party conference this week - but dare he speak economic truth to the rest of us?