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Lord Steel warns against bungled intervention in Independence debate »

A former Holyrood presiding officer has warned David Cameron and other senior English politicians to stay out of the Scottish independence debate at the risk of handing victory to the SNP. Lord Steel, a Liberal Democrat peer, accused the coalition Gov...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Dominique Cottee | Read more »

Edinburgh students to protest in London »

The Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) has chosen to support the anti-fees and cuts demonstration in London which is due to take place on 9 November. In a statement released by EUSA, President Matt McPherson confirmed that the Union has ...

Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Greg Bianchi | Read more »

Miliband's ill-informed idea »

Ed Miliband

Ed Mlliband has come under fire from all sides this week after announcing at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that “if Labour were in power right now, they would cap tuition fees at £6,000”. This plan ...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Emma Elliott-Walker | Read more »

Lessons learned on Scottish education »

Education opens doors. It has the power to transform lives, to open horizons and knock over barriers. The Labour Party has always striven to keep a fair and dynamic education policy agenda as a key driver in moving Scotland forward. We will continue to...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Des McNulty | Read more »

Elastic Miliband »

Ed Miliband

Miliband the Younger has been elected leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, and the result is a dismal one for anyone seeking a Labour government any time soon. A clear victory for Ed Miliband in the leadership contest would have been acceptable: t...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Richard Martyn-Hemphill | Read more »

Ed Miliband elected Labour leader »

Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband, has promised to direct his party into a new era of politics after the former Environmental Climate Change secretary was announced as the new labour leader on Saturday. Mr Miliband narrowly beat his brother David, the long-running favourit...

Tue 28 Sep 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Labour's pregnant pause »

Labour leadership candidates at the Young Fabians hustings

There's a simple reason why the Labour leadership election looks boring to most observers: discipline. Mindful of fractious and divisive internal contests of the past, and keenly aware that internal discipline kept the party in power for 13 years, the...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Sunny Hundal | Read more »

Devine blames Labour whips over expenses charge »

Devine blames Labour whips over expenses charge

Investigations are underway at Westminster after Labour whips were drawn into the expenses scandal by one of the party’s three MPs currently facing criminal charges. Jim Devine, MP for Livingston,  spent much of last week protesting his inn...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Ross Haig | Read more »

Where the Party's at »

Where the Party's at

When the Tories were slowly imploding in the run up to our first landslide victory in 1997, former minister Alan Clark called me to bemoan his party's fate. As my diaries show, this fellow diarist phoned me rather a lot, more th an his party whips a...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Alastair Campbell | Read more »

Racism in the Mainstream »

Over the last few years, much of liberal England has given up on the idea that racism is a significant social problem. Instead the real problem is taken to be social fragmentation exacerbated by multiculturalism. For every mention of institutional raci...

Wed 11 Nov 2009 by Arun Kundnani | Read more »

Cherie Blair: Second Chance for First Lady »

Cherie Blair

“What’s your favourite book then?” Cherie Blair sits down opposite me with an expectant expression. As I rack my brain for an answer I realise there is something almost imposing about this eloquent and distinctly intelligent woman. ...

Thu 15 Oct 2009 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Scottish Sun refuses to endorse Tories »

Scottish Sun

The editor of the Scottish edition of tabloid newspaper The Sun has said he will not be offering his backing to David Cameron’s Conservative Party. The decision follows the declaration of support for the Conservatives, published by the newspaper...

Wed 14 Oct 2009 by Joe Pike | Read more »

SNP referendum plans on hold after parliamentary defeat »

The Scottish National Party

The Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the Labour Party have voted to ditch SNP plans for a referendum on Scottish independence until after the next election in 2011. The vote, which was a Lib Dem amendment to a Labour-led discussion on the fail...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Anna Murray | Read more »

SNP plough on with drinking reforms »

The Scottish National Party

The SNP are to push ahead with their campaign to curb Scotland's drinking culture, entitled “Changing Scotland’s relationship with alcohol”, despite the programme being labelled "an unworkable mess" by Scottish Labour. The campaign c...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Laura Kay Robertson | Read more »

'Freudian self-harm' behind Mandelson appointment »

Peter Mandelson

Prime Minister, Gordon Brown instituted a cabinet reshuffle over the weekend of Friday 4 October in a effort to relaunch his government and capitalise on recent gains in popularity owing to his stewardship of the financial crisis.The reshuffle saw many...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Ross Melton | Read more »

EU Enlargement: the human cost of our paranoia »

Whilst there are millions of people in this country who would disagree, Britain is far from being the fair and free country of our collective self-perception – the liberal democratic beacon shining on the rest of the world. In accepting the of...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

The Labour Crisis: An unlikely coalition »

Gordon Brown must be wondering where it all went wrong: in September, he led David Cameron by 11 points in the polls. He could rely on the Conservatives to serve up grammar school rows, ill-timed photo-opportunity trips to the Third World and by-electi...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Tories race ahead in polls »

Conservative Party Logo

The Tories have raced ahead in the English polls, opening up their biggest lead since the 1980s.A survey by YouGov puts the Conservatives on 43 per cent, eleven points up on Labour on 32 per cent. The Liberal Democrats trail on 14 per cent.The Conserva...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt honour former supermarket chief  »

Lord Sainsbury

Lord Sainsbury, the controversial businessman and politician, is amongst those receiving honorary doctoral degrees from both the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. The former Science Minister and Labour Party peer received an Hon...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Talking at Liberty »

David Blunkett

“I don’t miss the six-and-a-half day weeks, sixteen hours a day; I don’t miss the backbiting; and I don’t miss the inability to go and see Sheffield Wednesday when there are home games,” laughs David Blunkett. Today, howev...

Tue 20 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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