Police commissioners – the latest hats in the ring
Over the past few months I’ve been keeping my eye on who might be interested in standing for election as police commissioners. Here are my very latest findings.
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Former Labour minister Phil Woolas is accused of stirring up racial divisions in a tightly-fought election campaign against his Lib Dem rival in Oldham East and Saddleworth, a court has been told.
Labour backbenchers have criticised their deputy leader, Harriet Harman, over the suspension of MP Phil Woolas, branding her comments “a disgrace”.
As former immigration minister Phil Woolas faces censure for breaching electoral rules on campaigning, it raises questions about whether other leaflets may have breached of the rules.
Shadow Immigration minister Phil Woolas is suspended from the Labour party after his election as MP was declared void. Labour leader Ed Miliband tells Channel 4 News it was right to suspend him.
Immigration minister Phil Woolas told Channel 4 News that relaxing the rules for Gurkhas further would mean up to 100,000 people coming to live in the UK. Is he right?
Over the past few months I’ve been keeping my eye on who might be interested in standing for election as police commissioners. Here are my very latest findings.
Both the Conservatives and Labour are hoping to contest all 41 posts for elected police commissioners, though with little enthusiasm, writes Michael Crick.
Labour celebrates victory in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, dealing a blow to the Coalition in the first test since the general election, as Gary Gibbon reports.
The Oldham and Saddleworth by-election is a crucial early test of the Tory-led Coalition. But as voters prepare for Thursday’s vote, broadcaster Peter McHugh writes that all bets are off.
Predictions in politics are a mug’s game: defining moments, from 9/11 to the banking collapse, often come from nowhere. But caveats aside, here’s some tips for 2011, from Gaby Hinsliff.
As a date is set for the Oldham and Saddleworth by-election, Gaby Hinsliff asks if the Lib Dems don’t win, will the national party be blamed?
As David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash for the last time this year at PMQs, broadcaster Peter McHugh asks whether the festive spirit will survive for long at Westminster.
As the coalition caps Non-EU migrants and the “overwhelming public concern” about immigration reaches the Commons, Gaby Hinsliff writes that the perennial bogeyman of British politics is back.
David Cameron fought off the opposition during PMQs as he basked in the realisation that months of royal distraction from the problems at home are ahead, writes broadcaster Peter McHugh.
There isn’t much these days which unites Tories and Labour but the House of Commons provided the venue today for one of the few things that does: Nick Clegg baiting, writes broadcaster Peter McHugh.