June 2011
Look Left – Miliband flexes his authority while Cameron U-turns. Again
Ed Miliband's mission to reform the Labour party took another step forward last night, as the Labour leader signalled the end of the biennial shadow cabinet elections.
Government’s bully tactics cannot prevent a humiliating defeat
Gavin Shuker, the shadow environment minister, writes about the defeat inflicted on the govenment in the Commons last night over a ban on circus animals.
Simon Hughes’s Oxbridge-bashing masks wider assault on higer education
The Government’s ‘Access Tsar’ Simon Hughes has launched a broadside against tutors interviewing candidates as part of a university admissions process.
Two weeks left to get the Tories to deliver on Cameron’s green promises
Christian Aid is gearing up to lobby Tory MEPs to vote to toughen up EU carbon emmissions targets - in accordance with their leader's promises.
Cameron defends circus animals ban farce
The prime minister sought to draw the sting out of the circus animals ban row today, insisting the government position was very similar to that of Mark Pritchard.
Tory defection highlights Boris’s weakness on law and order
A Conservative borough chairman has defected to Labour, citing the London Mayor's cuts to the police and inability to stand up for the NHS as critical failures.