Articles tagged Norman Lamb:
Broad Church Political Parties Win Elections, Narrow Sects Do Not
- 19 Sep 2019
A few of weeks ago I wrote in my EDP column about the retirement from the Commons of long-serving LibDem MP Norman Lamb. Retirement resignations are a bit like red buses. You write about one and inevitably another one is following on right behind. At the beginning of this m...
Did the LibDems Pick the Wrong Norman?
- 15 May 2010
It comes to something in a Ministerial shuffle when Norman Baker becomes a minister and Norman Lamb doesn't. As regular readers will know, LibDem MP Norman Lamb whipped my Tory ass in the 2005 election. He was a formidable opponent. Over the last couple of years he has been...
From North Norfolk to Westmorland & Lonsdale
- 8 May 2010
As most of you know, at the last election I stood in North Norfolk and experienced one of the biggest swings away from the Conservatives - 8.6%. The LibDem majority increased from 483 to 10,606. As soon as the result was announced I knew I would get a whole heap of the brown s...
EDP Diary: Tweedle Huhne v TweedleClegg
- 26 Oct 2007
Those of you who fear Norwich might be relegated to League One (as I suppose we must call it) should make a plea to Ed Balls never to invite Gordon Brown to Carrow Road. The man has a jinx. I can think of no international sporting event which the PM has attended wher...
EDP Diary: An October Election?
- 16 Aug 2007
Further proof of Tony Blair’s obsession with all things American has come with the news that he has hired a top US lawyer to broker a book deal for him. Pundits reckon that a publisher may well fork out $12 million for his memoirs. If so, they’re mad. Not a single publisher ha...
EDP Column: The Plight of a Chief of Staff
- 29 Jul 2007
Dereham’s Andy Marshall can be justifiably proud of his terrific Open performance last weekend. He carried the dreams of all of us hacking golfers with him. Having made the cut on Friday he scored a memorable four under par on Saturday, a round he will surely treasure for the ...
Living in the Constituency
- 21 Oct 2006
Ellee Seymour has an interesting little titbit about York LibDems leafleting constituents alerting them that Conservative Parliamentary Candidate Julian Sturdy lives three miles outside the constituency and therefore cannot be considered to be a local candidate. Pathetic, but ...
Well Done to Norman Lamb!
- 19 Jul 2006
Now there's a sentence you never thought you'd see on this blog. Norman has written to the Cabinet Office today to ask on what basis Lord Levy's secretary was given an MBE in 2002. The full story is HERE and you can watch the Channel 4 News report HERE. I bumped into Norman...
Call from North Norfolk Tory to Norman Lamb to Defect
- 25 Jan 2006
When you're a Parliamentary Candidate you expend quite a lot of effort urging your supporters to write letters to the local newspaper either supporting your candidacy or to criticse the incumbent. One of the more regular correspondents of the Eastern Daily Press is a Conservat...
Charles Kennedy Quits
- 6 Jan 2006
Daisy McAndrew (nee Sampson) joined ITN a few months ago from the BBC, where she had been hosting the Daily Politics Show with Andrew Neil. Before that she spent a couple of years as Charles Kennedy's Press Secretary. Today, Daisy McAndrew wielded the knife. She handed his pri...