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8 Dec 06
PETER RIDDELL | Gordon Brown’s Britain will be serious, busy and bracing.
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1 Dec 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Almost unnoticed this week, Labour broke a manifesto pledge.
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24 Nov 06
TONY TRAVERS | The public-private partnership for the London Underground remains the mother of all such deals.
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17 Nov 06
PETER HETHERINGTON | As policy flip-flops go, it passed almost unnoticed.
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10 Nov 06
HELEN DISNEY | How much should top public servants get paid?
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3 Nov 06
TONY TRAVERS | Could local authorities be about to regain a proper role in the governance of the NHS?
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27 Oct 06
PETER WILBY | Deep in the Conservatives’ tax commission report, published this month, you will find this sentence:
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20 Oct 06
MELISSA BENN | One of the most confusing sights in modern politics must surely be the repositioning of the Conservatives as the champion of progressive communal values, against an individualist New...
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13 Oct 06
DAVID LIPSEY | Parliament returned this week. So who gives a stuff?
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6 Oct 06
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | It’s extraordinary — apparently there is a whole world out there that feels it doesn’t know enough about the Conservative Party policy on fish.
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29 Sep 06
PETER RIDDELL | The green moment might at last have arrived.
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22 Sep 06
JACKIE ASHLEY | Manchester 2006: three very different Labour conferences are possible.
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15 Sep 06
PETER WILBY | Amid all the speculation about what a Gordon Brown-led government might be like — who will be in, who will be out, what policies will he adopt — one question remains unaddressed.
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8 Sep 06
PETER HETHERINGTON | Around 25 years ago, when trade union power was a force to be reckoned with, the redoubtable miners’ leader, Mick McGahey, rallied comrades at the Scottish TUC with a typically...
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1 Sep 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Few beyond the narrow confines of Westminster politics will have heard of Sir Alfred Sherman, and even there mention of his name will probably be greeted with puzzlement.
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18 Aug 06
VICTORIA MACDONALD | As the prime minister sunned himself in the Caribbean and the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, technically remained in charge of government, it was John Reid, the home...
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4 Aug 06
MELISSA BENN | At first sight, the recent wrangling over the charities Bill, which returns to the Commons in the autumn, contradicts Tony Blair’s claims for a new era of political cross-dressing.
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28 Jul 06
TONY TRAVERS | Regions with local government, or city-regions with neighbourhoods?
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21 Jul 06
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Sir Gus O’Donnell might possess the knighthood that still goes with the job — but he is a very different animal from the previous occupants of his high office.
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14 Jul 06
PETER RIDDELL | Tony Blair is not going quietly.
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7 Jul 06
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | For every complex problem, a wise man once said, there is always a simple solution and it is probably wrong.
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30 Jun 06
PETER WILBY | One of the missed opportunities of my life occurred late in 1974 when the then Conservative leader, Edward Heath, announced an election for the party leadership.
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23 Jun 06
HELEN DISNEY | Since the summer exam season is now upon us, there seems no better time to pose a few questions on the state of UK politics today.
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16 Jun 06
PETER HETHERINGTON | Last month, in an extensive Cabinet reshuffle that had even less regard for that elusive concept of joined-up government — does anything change? — the prime minister sent the...
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9 Jun 06
DAVID LIPSEY | The vice-presidency of the United States is famously not worth a bucket of warm spit. So what is the deputy leadership of the Labour Party worth?
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