Fergie attacks Tory toffs
Sir Alex Ferguson has entered the election debate–for the Reds, of course. In a two-page interview in the Daily Mirror, the Man United manager tells us it is "squeaky bum time" for David Cameron, who clearly thought it was "all over" only to find that it was not.His comments came in an "exclusive interview" with [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 28 April 2010 at 11:08 am
It was Clegg who won it
You pays your money and takes your choice in today's newspapers about who won the leaders' second television debate. "Cameron fights back," says the Daily Telegraph. "The Cam Back Kid," says The Sun. "Cameron wins with passion," claims the Daily Express. "Cameron nicks it," says The Times. All Tory-leaning, of course. The Labour-supporting Daily Mirror counters: "One [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Friday, 23 April 2010 at 10:39 am
Clegg’s moment
I'm not surprise that Nick Clegg came out on top in the first televised debate between the three main party leaders. I have always rated Clegg and have had a few texts from friends who were sceptical about him saying: "You were right." Which shows how biased the political system — and the media– is against [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Friday, 16 April 2010 at 8:20 am
The last PMQs show
The last session of Prime Minister's Questions of this parliament and, the Tories were keen to remind us, possibly Gordon Brown's last as Prime Minister. Everyone wondered whether he and David Cameron will have changed places by the time the Commons meets again next month. Today's exchanges took a long while to warm up. The Tory [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 7 April 2010 at 12:23 pm
Cameron off to flying start
David Cameron appeared to win the opening skirmishes of the 2010 general election campaign, which formally got underway today with the confirmation that it will be held on May 6. A nifty Tory leader nipped across the River Thames and managed to deliver his opening statement for the live TV channels before Gordon Brown did [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 6 April 2010 at 11:52 am
“A plague on all your houses”
People do not want "another five years of Gordon Brown" but they also feel no enthusiasm for the Conservative Party. These are the findings of our latest monthly opinion poll by ComRes. An opportunity for Nick Clegg in the leaders' TV debates, perhaps. It will make depressing reading for Labour and Tory politicians alike. Many are now describing [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Monday, 29 March 2010 at 6:54 pm
PMQs – Clegg’s star turn
A rowdy Prime Minister's Questions, as it often is when it's the warm-up act to the Budget. David Cameron, who told us it was probably the second last Question Time before the election, missed a trick by making only a passing reference to the Lobbygate scandal. Instead he attacked Gordon Brown on several fronts [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 24 March 2010 at 12:28 pm
Cameron exploits Lobbygate scandal
Timing is everything in politics and so we can hardly blame David Cameron for scheduling his monthly press conference today, a good time to rub salt in Labour's wounds over the cash-for-lobbying allegations engulfing the former Cabinet ministers Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon. The Tory leader faced only one question over his party's [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 23 March 2010 at 12:53 pm
Labour madness over lobbying scandal
Some "friends" of Gordon Brown are putting it about that he won't really be damaged much by the lobbying allegations against Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon because the three former Cabinet ministers are Blairites. There's a touch of schadenfreude in the air because Hoon and Hewitt were the instigators of the short-lived Labour coup against Brown [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Monday, 22 March 2010 at 10:58 am
Ashcroft saga — is it all over now?
The Tories are trying a new tack today in the controversy over Lord Ashcroft's peerage and "non-domicile" tax status. Instead of hiding away, they have gone on the offensive, with William Hague admitting he was wrong to say in 2000 that the deal allowing Ashcroft his peerage would bring in tens of millions in tax [...]
By Andrew Grice | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 18 March 2010 at 6:57 pm
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