Articles tagged In Conversation:
In Conversation with Lord Pearson
- 10 Dec 2009
This interview was conducted in December 2009 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. So what on earth made you decide to stand for leadership of UKIP? There was quite a lot of arm twisting from a number of leading people within the party and from several of t...
In Conversation with Vince Cable
- 28 Oct 2009
This interview was conducted in late 2009 and appeared in Total Politics Magazine You’ve published one book this year. Two would seem to be a bit much, what’s Free Radical about? The second one is personal. It’s different experiences of life, and it’s partly a written...
In Conversation with Michal Kaminski
- 2 Oct 2009
This interview was conducted in early October 2009 and appeared in Total Politics Magazine ID: What does it feel like to have become the new hate figure for the British left? MK: I have put myself in a very strange situation! But I can tell you that if the foreign...
In Conversation with Alan Duncan
- 7 Jul 2009
This interview took place in 2009 and an edited version was published in Total Politics magazine. ID: What is it with you and Harriet Harman? AD: On a personal level I really like her. We joke, we spar and we tease but I think it shows something two very important things...
In Conversation with Matthew Parris
- 9 May 2009
This article appeared in a 2009 edition of Total Politics magazine. Iain: How has turning 60 affected you, if it all? Matthew: I’ve got a bit of a limp which comes from literally tens of thousands of miles training for marathons. I did my last London marathon in 19...
In Conversation with Ken Olisa
- 23 Jan 2009
This interview was conducted in early 2009 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. Ken Olisa was a board member of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). How many people work at IPSA? We're going through a staged change. We top-loaded the staff t...
In Conversation with Iain Duncan Smith
- 6 Nov 2008
This interview was conducted in late October 2008. A much edited version appeared in Total Politics magazine. You’ve got a better than average office here, haven’t you? This office was originally the ex-leaders' or ex-prime ministers' office, and I got it when I fi...
In Conversation with Hazel Blears
- 1 Nov 2008
This interview was conducted in October 2008 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. To her fans she’s a human dynamo, to her enemies she’s an irritating robot. Iain Dale talks to Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government about her li...
In Conversation with Ken Livingstone
- 10 Oct 2008
ID: Do you think you lost the mayoralty, or did Boris win it? Because there is a difference, isn’t there? KL: You had two candidates with high positives, committed supporters but with high negatives from people who loathed them. London was fractured. There was a huge swing ...
In Conversation with Morgan Tsvangirai
- 6 Jul 2008
This interview appeared in Issue 2 of Total Politics Magazine in August 2008. You won the election in March. Do you now feel you have been cheated out of the Presidency? This is not about me. This is not about the MDC. My concern, and that o...