A striking graphic from Liberal Democrat High Command. The figures to back it up can be found in the detailed YouGov Survey Results for the voting intention survey conducted on 23 and 24 March. If you look at the top right of page 1, you will see that England is divided into only four regions: North, Midlands, London and South. This means that the Lib Dems are running first across a huge swathe of Southern England. Recent developments in the US have been bad for both the Reform and the Conservatives, which suggests that their dogfight over which of them ...
A reminder of something completely different to the usual: in 2024 I picked my five favourite spy novels for the Spybrary podcast. For a variation from the usual Never Mind The Podcasts fare, take a listen to what I picked, and why those in politics so often like spy stories: Anthony Price features, of course. As does (ssssh! former spy) Paddy Ashdown and US President Lyndon B Johnson, subject of perhaps the best non-fiction book and one with a brilliant narrator too. In coincidental related news, I discovered recently that the author of the standard book on the history of ...
An overused term on social media, but @munirawilson SCHOOLS Lord Frost on #Brexit here - and it is glorious! DF: "Anyone can come up with anecdotes." MW: "These are not anecdotes, but cold hard facts. Your Brexit is damaging our economy that your gov't left on its knees." ~AA pic.twitter.com/VDT0rwd1nN — Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) March 24, 2025 Three years ago an "ally" told The Sunday Telegraph earlier that David Frost was a "proper Conservative" with "star quality", who could even be a future prime minister. There was little sign of star quality when Frost debated the effects of Brexit ...
Mike Ross is one of our best hopes of winning a mayoral election in May. The Hull Council leader is our candidate for Hull and East Riding Mayor. We run the Council in Hull and have a long track record of vigorous, incessant campaigning there. Here is Mike's keynote speech to Conference this weekend.
Before he ever saw a Hammond organ, Steve Winwood was a brilliant guitarist and jazz pianist. Here he is at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007.
Editor's Note: This is the speech Adrian would have given had they been called in the heavily over-subscribed debate on the Free to be who you are policy paper in Harrogate Firstly a big thank you to our mover Christine Jardine MP for spending the time in talking at length with so many of us to bring together a wide-ranging motion which covers many topics which for those of us who are at the core of campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights are extremely pleased to have one concise paper to refer to. I want to speak particularly to lines 112-113 - ...
Our joint weekly ward surgery takes place tonight. This week it is as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!
Labour may have been elected on a platform of not increasing tax but for thousands of pensioners that pledge is going to look very hollow when the state starts to take cash off them from April 2026. Birmingham Live reports that over nine million state pensioners are to be hit with what they term as Labour Party's 'retirement tax' next year when the triple lock will rise by 5.5% or £600 to £12,631 meaning it will breach the personal allowance which has been frozen by Rachel Reeves until 2029. The paper says that as a result, nine million pensioners will ...
The Independent reports that new research has found that more than 200,000 jobs could be lost because of the government's so-called tractor tax. The paper says that the move would also cost the economy £14.9bn, according to a study by the independent consultancy CBI-Economics, which was commissioned by the group Family Business UK and looked at more than 4,000 businesses and farms across the country: Nearly a quarter of family businesses - 23 per cent - and almost one in five family farms - 17 per cent - said they had cut jobs or halted recruitment since the planned tax ...
