Campaign to ensure ordinary people have say in leaders’ debates
38 Degrees has launched a campaign to ensure the televised election debates between party leaders are a real opportunity for ordinary voters to have their say.
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Is Alex Salmond a deal breaker on leaders debates?
Alex Salmond may appear alongside party leaders when Sky News hosts its general election leaders’ debate. Could his intervention scupper the debates entirely?
What is Politics?
The 2010 election is likely to be the most closely contested in recent memory. ‘X Marks the Box’ is a book to try to get other people excited about politics again.
Wright should say sorry; Labour MPs should keep tweeting
David Wright is under pressure for a tweet yesterday. But Labour MPs should hold their nerve and avoid following the Conservative’s lead of vetting tweets.
Is Cameron going to take the ‘public’ out of public services?
David Cameron’s co-operative proposal should be judged on its merits. But mutual solutions must empower parents, patients, pupils and service users. Veteran stalwarts of the Co-operative Movement may not be able to stifle a wry smile after seeing the Conservativetest
Brushed off: Cameron axed from Tory posters – but who’ll replace him… Osborne?!
The Conservatives are to axe David Cameron from their posters, just a month after the infamous airbrushed poster was rolled out across the country.
How to win back voters Labour’s lost
Labour MP Colin Burgon has written a report on how the party can win back the four million voters it lost between the 1997 and 2005 elections.
New Tory ad backfires
A new Conservative party poster appeared to be backfiring last night as media commentators attacked the ad and a new spoof site was set up to parody the campaign
Pickles: Key role for Tory bloggers in rebutting Labour
A Tory bloggers briefing yesterday highlighted the key role that Tory chairman Eric Pickles believes Tory websites will play in rebutting Labour’s key messages.
Learning the lessons of the Dems’ defeat in Mass.
The defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts, for liberal icon Ted Kennedy’s own seat offers lessons as urgent as they are vital to incumbents headed in to elections on both sides of the Atlantictest