![](https://fournews-assets-prod-s3-ew1-nmprod.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2017/05/gary-gibbon.jpg)
Syria debate: Johnson attacks ‘self-righteous certitude’
Alan Johnson rebuked Corbyn’s team with a sharp speech, but the debate hasn’t had the energy of past Commons debates on war.
203 items found
Alan Johnson rebuked Corbyn’s team with a sharp speech, but the debate hasn’t had the energy of past Commons debates on war.
Alan Johnson dismisses talk of a Labour plot and that he is being lined up to replace Ed Miliband, telling the party to “get a grip”.
As the living wage rises from £7.20 to £7.45, Boris Johnson joins Labour in calling for more employers to boost low wages. But is it bad for business? Channel 4 News investigates.
“Yes, there are Olympic virtues. No they’re not the ones Boris Johnson – in his finest rhetorical mode – listed. And no, they’re nothing to do with the rings.”
England rugby union team manager Martin Johnson resigns after a dismal World Cup. But why, asks Ben Monro-Davies, did the RFU take the massive gamble of appointing him in the first place?
Drinks all round, it seems. Labour gets its bruising economic brain Ed Balls in the Shadow Chancellor brief. He will attack relentlessly and with authority.
Our Political Editor says that Alan Johnson’s resignation involved “affairs of the heart” – but there was little love lost until recently between the two Eds now at the top of the Labour Party.
Ed Miliband’s choice of Alan Johnson as his new Shadow Chancellor was “both unexpected and inspired”, writes Labour’s former communications chief, Lance Price.
The Home Secretary says 83 per cent of asylum cases aren’t genuine – but do the figures back him up? FactCheck doesn’t think so.
Former home secretaries John Reid and Alan Johnson go head-to-head on Channel 4 News ahead of the referendum on AV, as an expert panel analyses the “Yes” and “No” campaigns.
The claim “Yvette Cooper should know that Alan Johnson refused to guarantee police numbers, and (Ed) Balls admitted he would cut force budgets by over £1bn a year” Policing Minister Nick Herbert MP, Radio 4’s World this Weekend
As Alan Johnson leaves his post as Shadow Chancellor and Ed Balls replaces him, political commentator Lance Price ponders the compatibility of the Brownite and Labour leader Ed Miliband.
As Alan Johnson leaves – and Ed Balls arrives as the new Shadow Chancellor, what does it all mean for the Labour Party? Peter McHugh has some thoughts on the matter.
If the Royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton, need a photographer, Labour Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson has a suggestion, as Gary Gibbon blogs.
FactCheck analyses Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson’s claim that Labour “paid down debt” and controlled borrowing.