David Cameron ‘wholeheartedly’ defends right to publish Charlie Hebdo cover
The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo goes on sale tomorrow, with around 1,000 copies expected to be available in the UK. Some people have decided that buying it shows ils sont Charlie, but both David...
View Article‘Boring is good’ Cameron tells Tory MPs
David Cameron and George Osborne addressed Tory MPs this evening. The meeting was to update the Tory parliamentary party on the economy and its place in the party’s election strategy. Cameron told them...
View ArticleDefiant Tony Blair apologises for collapse of Downey trial, but says On the...
Meetings of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee are rarely so popular that they have to book an overspill room, but today’s hearing with Tony Blair was a sell-out occasion, with both the...
View ArticleSign up to TV debates or we’ll go ahead without you, leaders warn Cameron
Labour, the Lib Dems and Ukip are having quite a bit of fun with their identical letters from their respective leaders demanding that David Cameron take part in the TV debates – or risk having...
View ArticleLabour’s energy price trap for the Tories
This afternoon Labour has its debate on forcing energy companies to pass on lower oil prices to their customers. The potency of the political attack has been blunted rather by the party’s admission...
View ArticleThe debate about TV debates dominated today’s PMQs
PMQs today was dominated by the debate about debates. After a few statesmanlike questions about the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, Miliband started to needle Cameron about his reluctance to...
View ArticlePMQs sketch: EU referendum, the Greens and A&E
Would he say no to saying no? The first question at PMQs, from Gregg McClymont, was about Cameron’s vote in the EU referendum, (if it ever happens). McClymont wants the PM to rule out ruling out...
View ArticleThe Tories are likely to ‘weaponise’ in the lead up to the election
David Cameron did, as James says, manage to avoid debating the rather more electorally damaging issue of the A&E crisis at Prime Minister’s Questions today because Ed Miliband chose to talk about...
View ArticleHow parliament is failing to hold the EU to account
Today MPs hold a short Commons debate on the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership – TTIP. As a pan-EU trade deal with the US it is being negotiated by the European Commission, with a...
View ArticleHow can the Church keep earning its right to intervene in politics?
Given the political parties are already well underway with their General Election campaigns, the Church of England couldn’t have waited much later to dispense its advice on how to campaign and what to...
View ArticleClunky Conservative machine still causing unnecessary problems
There is considerable frustration in the Tory ranks about the way the Prime Minister is handling the TV debates. Both those who think David Cameron should be doing the debates and those who think he...
View ArticleDavid Cameron’s transatlantic election campaigning
This trip to Washington couldn’t have gone much better for David Cameron. Not only has he had serious meaty talks with President Obama about the importance of tackling terrorism and cyberterrorism, but...
View ArticleCameron and Obama: Friends4eva
David Cameron and Barack Obama have just finished giving a rather cutesy and extremely verbose press conference following the reinvigorating of their bromance/serious talks on the economy and...
View ArticleWhy Boris and the Tory leadership are playing nicely
For most of this parliament, Downing Street has been thoroughly paranoid about Boris Johnson and his intentions. Any attempt by the Mayor to reach out to Tory MPs was met with deep suspicion. But now,...
View ArticleThe coalition government is not blame for the latest NHS ‘crisis’
Of all the accusations thrust at the Conservatives by Labour over the NHS in recent weeks, their weakest has been the attempt to blame the Government’s reforms to the NHS for the pressures it is...
View ArticleWhy is Nick Clegg so happy?
Nick Clegg always seems oddly upbeat when he’s doing interviews about just how badly his party could do in the General Election. Today when Andrew Marr asked him about Iain Dale’s prediction the Lib...
View ArticleParties stick in comfort zones for another Monday of campaigning
It’s another election Monday and the three parties are still hanging about in their comfort zones, even though they appear to have moved on to other topics. David Cameron is talking about the economy,...
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Watch: Green leader Natalie Bennett backs Cameron on TV debates
What are you afraid of boys? The Green Party posed this question on Westminster’s College Green this morning as they launched a new poster campaign (driven around on pedal bikes, natch) calling for the...
View ArticleArchbishop John Sentamu is wrong about free schools on every count
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has never been shy about courting publicity. He frequently churns out controversial opinion pieces for the red-tops and, just in case they don’t receive enough...
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Chuka Umunna shouldn’t have lost his temper on TV. But he was right to refuse...
Chuka Umunna’s fit of pique at the end of his Sky interview was unnecessary. One of the skills of a politician who fancies being a leader is to look calm and reasonable in the face of unreasonable...
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