Michael Crick
Will the Electoral Commission act over Tory Thanet expenses?
Did the Tories spent twice as much in defeating Nigel Farage in Thanet South last year as they were legally allowed under the rules?
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Housing booming in Manchester, but who can afford it?
One of the key issues in this week’s elections was housing – or rather the price of it . And nowhere more so than in booming Manchester – considered the engine of the northern powerhouse.
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Election debated
Conservative Nadhim Zahawi and Andy McDonald from Labour.
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Brexit: Gina Miller and Jonathan Isaby
Gina Miller, who has launched a campaign to encourage tactical voting against pro-Brexit MPs and in favour of a “real final vote on Brexit”, and Jonathan Isaby, editor of the website Brexit Central.
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May and Corbyn clash in Commons
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have set out their campaign battle lines at the final session of Prime Minister’s Questions before the general election.
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Alex Thomson
Nicola Sturgeon: my 56 MPs will fight to end austerity
Below the Forth railway bridge, in front of her 56 Westminster MPs, Nicola Queen of Scots pledges to fight austerity – and fails to mention “independence” or “referendum”.
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Alex Thomson
Feeling threatened? Insults fired at the SNP
More insults raining down on the SNP tonight with the Labour hopeful in Glasgow South calling the party a “cult”. Curious for any person defending a 10,000+ “safe seat” to say that because it sounds like he feels threatened. He is, of course.
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Gary Gibbon
The Queen’s Speech
I asked various sources how the Queen might feel about turning up in a grand ceremonial opening of parliament mode, lending lustre to what could be a political bear fight.
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Gary Gibbon
Election 2015: talking to the SNP – deals and mini deals
Ed Miliband’s team has always been clear. The SNP, it argues, has nowhere else to go in a hung parliament, when it comes to votes that could bring in or vote out a Labour minority government.
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Gary Gibbon
General election 2015: David Cameron pumps it up
David Cameron has done another very psyched up outing to convince anyone who doubted it that he is desperately keen to carry on in the job.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron profile: Gary Gibbon speaks to the Conservative leader
If he did get back in, what sort of David Cameron would we see? The long gone husky-cuddling eco-warrior won’t make a reappearance presumably.
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Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage profile: his political career began in a bar
As the Ukip leader tells it, he saw the light in a bar in 1990, on the day the UK entered the exchange rate mechanism. Since then, his mission has mushroomed into something much bigger.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron attacks SNP on The Andrew Marr Show
The main thrust of Mr Cameron’s interview was an attack on the SNP. Andrew Marr said the PM was beginning to sound like an English Nationalist, which went down pretty badly.
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Alex Thomson
A clubby, chummy, synthetic encounter with Cameron
What is billed as ‘life on the campaign trail’ is actually an antiseptic exercise in keeping our party leaders away from real voters.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems: we’ll out-spend Labour and Tories on education
Nick Clegg began his manifesto launch with attacks on Ukip and the SNP. Only the Lib Dems could be trusted as a coalition partner, he said.