Posts Tagged With: Labour
Coalition accused of abusing parliament
Labour says it will fight any effort to use special procedures to reverse Lords’ votes on cutting benefits to disabled peopleThe government was warned on Thursday that it is running the risk of abusing parliament in its attempts to reverse a triple def… Continue reading
Politics Weekly podcast: David Cameron v Alex Salmond
The prime minister, David Cameron, announced this week that any referendum on Scottish independence must take place in the next 18 months and feature only one simple question: stay in the UK on present terms, or leave.But the leader of the Scottish Nat… Continue reading
Alistair Darling and Charles Kennedy lined up for Scottish pro-union drive
Labour and Liberal Democrats hope David Cameron will take lower profile as main parties plan focus on economyAlistair Darling, Charles Kennedy and the former Tory leader in Scotland, Annabel Goldie, are being lined up as the main faces of the pro-union… Continue reading
Frank Cook obituary
Maverick leftwing MP for Stockton North with a special interest in defence issuesThough the former Labour MP Frank Cook, who has died aged 76 after suffering from lung cancer, always insisted that he was a simple leftwinger, as strong on defence as he … Continue reading
Caption competition: what is Ed Miliband saying?
The Labour leader was visiting an east London school to highlight his plans for the economy. But he looks a little preoccupied. What do you think was troubling him?Who says young people have no manners? When Ed Miliband visited Bethnal Green Academy to… Continue reading
UK ‘should tell Vladimir Putin he is not welcome at Olympics’
MPs call for Russian prime minister to be told he is not wanted at London games unless Russia improves human rights recordBritain should tell Vladimir Putin that he is not welcome at the London Olympics unless Russia makes meaningful efforts to improve… Continue reading
What do you want to ask Jim Murphy?
I’m interviewing the shadow defence secretary – who was also Labour’s last Scottish secretary. What do you think I should ask him?”It is important to be both credible and popular when it comes to defence investment and the economics of defence,” Jim … Continue reading
Boundary changes: the first map of the UK’s new constituencies
How would the UK have looked if the 2010 election had been fought with the new constituencies? Would your MP still have a seat? See the map for yourselfSimon RogersJames Ball
Welsh constituency rejig proposals slammed as ‘diabolical’
Most radical redrawing of region’s political map in 70 years will reduce Wales’s influence at Westminster, Labour saysProposals for the most radical re-drawing of the Welsh political map for almost 70 years have been criticised by Labour and nationalis… Continue reading
Fear and Lothian – the Scottish independence questions start | Simon Hoggart’s Sketch
What the Scots hate are posh, arrogant, public school-educated Englishmen who know what’s best. Let’s put George Osborne in chargeThe first prime minister’s questions of 2012, and the main topic was Scottish independence. We will hear of little else fo… Continue reading »