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My article in Parliamentary Monitor

I’ve got an article in the latest issue of Parliamentary Monitor. Annoyingly you can’t read it online without a subscription but if you are going to any of the party conferences you should be able to pick up an issue there. I’m always a little wary of what sub-editors will do to my stuff but… Continue reading My article in Parliamentary Monitor

Gideon Osborne: how to make saying nothing into a virtue

Gideon Osborne has announced that, due to the “complete economic mess” the Conservatives will have to rewrite all their economic policies. To a degree that makes sense, except when you remember one thing: They don’t have any economic policies! Osborne has done a brilliant job at not saying anything about what he plans to do… Continue reading Gideon Osborne: how to make saying nothing into a virtue

Nick Clegg dismisses u-turn on tax as “mere details”

Thanks to Linda Jack for pointing me in the direction of Nick Clegg’s interview on the Westminster Hour on Sunday evening. In a fairly bad tempered interview given the easy ride that Caroline Quinn gives him (just imagine what a Paxo or Humphries would have made of this), he goes back to the formulation which… Continue reading Nick Clegg dismisses u-turn on tax as “mere details”