Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Full coverage of UK Politics It's obvious what Labour should do now. Switch leader, hold an immediate general election before things get even worse, salvage as many seats as they can and tip the mess they've made of the economy into George Osborne's lap. It's equally obvious that they will do no such thing. They were so scared of the Broon's vindictiveness that they couldn't muster an...
West Brom Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... is not what we are going to get unless Brown works out that his economic mess is best poured into George Osborne’s lap.Of course the biggest imminent danger for Brown lies at . All those union barons may just figure something out, that absolutely nothing connects Glasgow, Crew and Nantwich or Henley. They have not the support of middle England, deprived working class Glaswegians or...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... who are directors, advisers, or are paid-for after-dinner speeches and newspaper articles.One is George Howarth, Labour MP for Knowsley North and Sefton East, who earns £30,000 as an adviser to the bookmakers William Hill.Birkenhead Labour MP Frank Field is a director of Liverpool financial advisers Medicash Health Benefits and pockets up to £50,000 a year from articles and speeches.On the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... after flirting with English separatism, he has been steered back towards unionism, not least by George Osborne. So he wants to extend his party's reach as a truly national party, battered since Lady Thatcher energetically alienated all the Celtic regions of Britain on a host of policies in the 80s. He is still weak north and west of Crewe, doing better in Wales but stalemated by the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... preparations are successfully in place for the election campaign thanks to the strategic work of George Osborne and Lord Ashcroft. But a public cheerleader in the style of Margaret Thatcher's chairman, Cecil Parkinson, is now required. Nobody does cheerleading better than Mr Duncan and his media skills are second to none.
Toby Harnden - Telegraph Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Full coverage of the US elections 2008 Great piece of dogged shoe-leather reporting - he cornered David Cameron in a lift and George Osborne in the Central Lobby at Westminster - by my Belfast friend Ben Lowry in the Tele...
Potlatch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... of, there is a book out called Nudge , by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. You can find out why George Osborne loves it , what Matthew Taylor thinks of it , which restaurant Sunstein and Thaler discuss it in , and why we need more pictures of flies in urinals . Between policies which force us to act in the public interest (e.g. a smoking ban) and those which free us to act in our...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... tackled Dan Hannan and Douglas Carswell's support for the Democrat candidate . David Cameron and George Osborne will meet Barack Obama later this week when the Illinois Senator visits London.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne arrived in Glasgow East yesterday to welcome the government’s planned benefit reforms with the incendiary observation that they marked a “victory for the centre-right in British politics”.
Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
George Osborne has criticised the Government's "complete absence of direction" after Alistair Darling was forced into another U-turn.
Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
George Osborne has declared "the Brown era of economics" over after it emerged the Government is planning to rewrite its fiscal rules.
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
ToryDiary: Forget tax cuts, says Fox Parliament: Grieve attacks doubling of violent crime in ten years Local government: Tories gain two council seats in Jacqui Smith's backyard Ewan Watt on Platform: Lessons from Barry Goldwater George Osborne reacts to Labour's...
