It is time for Brown to end this farce: Politics Decoded by Garbo
Things have just changed gear
With less than a week to go until the start of the Labour party conference, the leadership debate has been ratcheted up a notch or two. After a very quiet summer, that led the BBC’s Nick Robinson to say the leadership debate was dead, things have really started to get [...]
Work and Pensions: Jenny Willott MP. Lib Dem Conference Sept 2008
Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jenny Willott MP outlined her plans to help working people break out of poverty and reform welfare to work programmes.
Two nations divided by lame duck leaders: Politics Decoded by Garbo
Lame ducks
Britain and America – two nations divided by a common language. Of course, there are plenty more subtle and not so subtle differences between the US and Britain, but there is also a lot that we have in common. The news that George Bush was steering clear of the Republican convention made me realise we [...]
Boris Johnson and CCHQ - a match made in hell? Politics Decoded by Garbo
Nice bit of spin
According to Iain Dale this morning, Boris Johnson’s First Deputy Mayor is about to resign by, we are told, mutual consent. This move will also see Johnson “promote†himself to the chair of TfL. Of course, this is the third senior figure to have left the Johnson administration under, let’s say, unclear [...]
