Articles tagged UK Politics:
Another Margaret Thatcher Memory
- 9 Apr 2013
Back in 2009 I wrote this piece for the New Statesman, which was a collection of recollections about where people were the moment they heard Margaret Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister. The night before Margaret Thatcher’s resignation, I remember having had rows with...
Marta Andreassen Continue to Ingratiate herself With Kent Tories - But Can She be Selected?
- 5 Apr 2013
How heartwarming to see newly defected MEP Marta Andreassen on the stump with Kent Conservatives yesterday, as reported on Andrew Kennedy’s excellent blog. Anyone would think there was a European selection in the offing. Perish the thought. Of course, to be a Euro candidate ...
On North Korea & Trident
- 4 Apr 2013
We had a corking discussion on North Korea and also whether we should renew Trident on my LBC show tonight. But I was very concerned by the number of people who sincerely appear to believe that America is at the centre of all evil in today’s world. Sure, America isn’t perfect ...
Can John Hayes Be a 'Willie'?
- 29 Mar 2013
‘Not since Caligula appointed his horse as his chief adviser has such an inappropriate appointment been made’. Those were the words of not one, but two Tory MPs, speaking to me about John Hayes being made the Prime Minister’s chief parliamentary adviser. I wouldn’t quite go t...
Shock Horror! I'm a Right Wing Libertarian!
- 20 Mar 2013
My Political Views I am a right social libertarian Right: 4.78, Libertarian: 3.99 Political Spectrum Quiz As if I was in any doubt… My LBC producer Matt, who is the son of a Labour politician, thinks I am heading to defect to New Labour. This might give him pause for thought...
Budget Preview: Don't Expect Anything Radical
- 20 Mar 2013
Let me predict the headline the Chancellor would like to see in tomorrow’s Daily Mail… PERSONAL ALLOWANCES RAISED TO £10k A YEAR EARLY It’s a measure which has the double attraction of keeping the LibDems happy and giving his own activists something to trumpet on the doo...
Cameron's Motherhood & Apple Pie Speech Lacked Red Meat
- 16 Mar 2013
Watching David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Spring Conference was a slightly strange experience. The words came out but they were just that – words. There was an absence of passion, and only at the end, when there was a desultory attack on Labour did he become at all ...
Archbishop Softens Line on Gay Marriage
- 12 Mar 2013
Several of the papers have picked up my interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday, but they have concentrated on what he said about bankers’ bonuses. I think they missed the main story, and that was on gay marriage. It seemed to me that His Grace really softened hi...
Jo Shaw: A Principled Resignation
- 10 Mar 2013
This morning on my LBC Sunday morning show (only two of those left – sob) I interviewed Jo Shaw. Who? I hear you cry. Well until this morning she was LibDem parliamentary candidate for Holborn & St Pancras. This evening she isn’t. She isn’t even a party member any longer....
May the Force be With Theresa?
- 9 Mar 2013
It’s a mark of how much trouble Number Ten is in that a speech like one Theresa May gave this afternoon at the ConservativeHome conference is automatically interpreted as a bold leadership bid. Back in November Tim Montgomerie asked her to close his Victory 2015 conference. U...