Commissioner “sorry” For Phone Tap Blair is in trouble again. No, not the PM, the other one! – Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has said he is sorry for recording a telephone conversation with Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith. He claims that he taped the …
Somewhat later than promised, here is the latest Inside Westminster report on the Lib Dems under Ming: The Rt. Hon. Sir Menzies “Ming” Campbell CBE QC M.P. (to use his full title) is the new leader of the Liberal Democrats after one of the funniest …
Ming Campbell Elected Leader Londonist must put its hands up and admit to being entirely wrong about the result of the Liberal Democrat leadership election. We thought Huhne would pip it marginally. The gossip in the House of Commons Members’ Tea Room was that Huhne …
The Lib Dems clearly aren’t damaged by the shambles that has been the deposition of Kennedy and the subsequent acandal-ridden leadership election. The results of yesterday’s by-election in Dunfermline and West Fife – a neighbouring constituency to the Gordon Brown’s. The Lib Dem candidate, Willie …
It seems that the Liberal Democrats can’t go a week without a scandal. First, there were the original revelations about Charles Kennedy’s drinking (quelle surprise?!) Then there was the admission of the party’s Leader in the House of Lords, Lord McNally, that he too has …
With a lot of media attention diverted towards Ruth Kelly’s supposed misdemeanors over at the Department for Education and Skills, it has been a fairly subdued week here in the Palace of Westminster. However, the fires are still raging over government plans to combat terrorism, …
You may have heard the rumours that Charles Kennedy is facing a coup d’etat within the Liberal Democrat party. Well, these rumours certainly got louder today. Lembit Öpik, the Lib Dems’ Wales and Northern Ireland spokesman, spoke to the press today denouncing those in the …
The PM spent a portion of this morning sitting in Buckingham Palace asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament, perhaps nibbling a Mr Kipling’s Fondant Fancy (or if you’re a fan of David Icke, dancing naked in the guts of small children and laughing about the …
Today a list of the Prime Ministers dinner guests was released after Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb requested it under the Freedom of Information Act, as part of his “campaign to secure greater openness in government“. Yeah, right. Not an opportunity to make Tony Blair …
Today’s Guardian has a piece on the so-called “Deotur From Hell”, which has been causing a bit of a headache in west London for the past fortnight. The detour, set up to circumvent roadworks, meant that motorists “trying to progress 300 metres down a busy …
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