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The Education Secretary Michael Gove announces details of 16 new free schools for England, with a campaign group backing the idea telling Channel 4 News that many will open in the months ahead.
The Green Party claims to have Daniel Hannan amongst their supporters in Oxford East – but is that really what the Conservative MEP said?
A quick one from the archive: we cast our eye back over some of the most dubious statements made by politicians of all kinds last year, as debunked by FactCheck. Miscounting Gurkhas “What I can’t do, which is what some are asking me to do but the judge did not, is to grant every Gurkha…
Gary Gibbon
The Prime Minister was all smiles with Peter Mandelson at the London launch of the economic growth strategy, this afternoon. But yesterday, after a phone call around 8am, the two didn’t speak again. All day. Wasn’t Peter Mandelson meant to be the key strategist, right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister in all but name? Yesterday morning’s…
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown may taunt the Tories for inventing policy on the “playing fields of Eton”, but his Schools Secretary Ed Balls also spend time at the public school.
Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage’s UKIP got 3 per cent to the Tories’ 57.4 per cent in Buckingham at the last general election but the UKIP MEP and party leader is going to give the seat a try anyway and take on the Speaker, John Bercow. Tradition has it that the main parties don’t challenge the Speaker at a general election so the…
Gary Gibbon
The more you look at the Norwich result the more puzzling it is. Sea-change political moments require “converts,” or so we’ve always thought. You can’t build a mighty national majority on the other party’s core vote staying at home, or can you? Tory strategists claim they got some Labour converts and that the party tallies…
Gary Gibbon
A solitary poignant demo as we wait for the Norwich North by-election declaration.
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown at his press conference just now sounded like a man rehearsing his lines for Friday when Norwich North looks like getting a Tory MP. He said he thought “people do understand the uniqueness of this by-election” in answer (or rather in reply) to a question about why he deselected Ian Gibson. David Cameron…
Jon Snow
Bye Bye to my member, and a word to Chris, Joe10 and Ken on yesterday’s class war blog. That’s it, they’ve gone! Eighty two days now before we see another MP in the House of Commons chamber on October 12th. And in what a parlous state they seem to be leaving British politics. Tomorrow, The…
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron believes that one of the high points of his leadership has been the “Flying Squad”/”Get Carter” way he dealt with Tory MPs’ expenses. He and his team believe this has won him points for “getting it” when it comes to the public distrust of politicians. Can he really afford to risk this right…