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Ed Davey: “I had blood from her all over me”
Ed Davey has given his first exclusive interview since joining the Cabinet to tomorrow’s Independent on Sunday.
Unfairly characterised at times as a bland, Lib Dem middle-ranker, he has a fascinating and at times tragic life story: orphaned at 15, at school with Ed Balls, first taste of politics was at a Young Conservative disco.
But the [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 8:15 pm
Ed could do worse than agree with Nick
Ed Miliband is in danger of turning into one of those 1980s revival tours, where once-big bands go through the motions on their one or two hits, safe in the knowledge there are just enough people who want to hear them.
So at PMQs we had Leveson – cos he scored a direct hit on phone [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 5:21 pm
How Nick Clegg could buy voters back
The Lib Dems are finished. Everyone knows that. Tuition fees. VAT. NHS. Shackled to evil Tories.
Slumped on 8-10 per cent, it is just a question of counting down to the inevitable slaughter at the general election.
Right, next question, who at the next election can claim to have given voters a £700 tax cut, even at [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 9:00 am
Cameron v Brown – who dodged PMQs more?
Labour has made much of the idea that David Cameron is “running scared” of Prime Minister’s Questions. Certainly last week MPs voted to sit on an extra Friday on March 23 to avoid, according to Labour, sitting on an additional Wednesday March 28 when Ed Miliband goes toe to toe with the PM.
They might [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Tuesday, 28 February 2012 at 2:55 pm
I can help the £725k Commons creche save money
This story about the House of Commons creche might, rightly, cause some irritation to people who are having to tighten their belts. The Speaker, John Bercow, made great play three years ago of making Parliament more “family friendly” for MPs by opening a creche, similar to ones in offices everywhere.
Nothing wrong with that, although [...]
By Jane Merrick | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 12:06 pm
Mitt Romney faces competition for Nevada’s Mormon vote
The outcome of tomorrow’s Republican caucus in Nevada is likely to be decided by a spectacular turnout from local Mormons, who make up around 7 percent of residents but (as I reported this morning) are expected to cast 30 percent of votes.
Received wisdom has it that nine out of ten of them will back Mitt [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk, iPolitics | Friday, 3 February 2012 at 7:11 pm
Will Borgen be back?
You cannot go far in Parliament these days without someone confiding that they are watching Borgen – the Danish political drama – and loving it.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 2 February 2012 at 10:27 am
Miliband won’t cough up for Royal Yacht
It was only a matter of time. Last week I blogged on how a government minister thought it would be a great wheeze for Cameron and Osborne to stump up £100 for a new Royal Yacht, and watch Ed Miliband struggle with questions about doing the same. Now he has been asked the question.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 9:00 pm
Why I want to whack Cameron and Clegg
A worrying trend emerging in Coalition language: the use of the word “whack”. Not in the sense of “whacking the poor” but the (more American sounding) complaining about something being “out of “whack”. As far as I can tell it is a new, infuriating development in 2012, but I stand ready to be corrected.
Cameron started [...]
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 12:13 pm
The NHS “efficiency savings” are already being spent
This year they are on target to save around £5bn. And the money is already being quietly funnelled back into the health service.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 8:47 am
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