As predicted here this morning the name of the footballer at the heart of the super injunction row was named by an MP this afternoon in the chamber. John Hemming is protected by parliamentary privilege and almost all the main news orgnaisations are reporting what he said. Quite where this will end up is hard to say – but this is the main political story of the day and everybody is talking about it. Would posters please restrict themselves to…
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Will the real losers be the judges? Several of the front pages are devoted to the super-injunction story and it looks as though we could see further developments I just wonder whether an MP or a peer will find a way of getting this latest case into the open today using parliamentary privilege in the way that details about the former RBS boss, Fred Goodwin, were revealed last week. We are in for an interesting few days. Mike Smithson
Guardian ..” let’s remember he (Ed Miliband) already has a five- or six-point lead in most of the recent opinion polls..” – Jackie Ashley Guardian May 22 Mike Smithson
Will this stop the Speccie’s team getting too excitable? Ever since Ken made his unfortunate remarks on 5Live last Wednesday there’s been an air of excitability and expectation in some of the postings on the Speccie’s CoffeeHouse blog. Several posts gave the impression that now, at least, Cameron would have to get rid of the justice secretary whose views on the EU, the Iraq war and a less than authoritarian stance on crime have not endeared him to sections of…
For the 3rd week running he dominates the political news If it’s Sunday then it must be the latest instalment in the Chris Huhne speeding points affair with the pressure continuing to mount on the resilient Lib Dem energy secretary. The Sunday Times front page featured above doesn’t look good while inside the paper there is a graphic showing the alleged locations and times of Mr and Mrs Huhne and where the speeding offence happened, with multiple witnesses allegedly backing…
Does he need more than cliches if Labour is to retain its lead? In what’s been billed as a big speech setting out how Labour will move forward the party leader, Ed Miliband, has talked about a “national mission” to regain the trust of the voters. He talked about the need to set out a clear and positive vision for the future which touched the concerns of voters. He also touched on a theme that he’s raised before – that…
Can both sides emerge with neither a loser? Sometimes the big story of the moment overshadows the more important story of the moment. This week has been one such time, with Ken Clarke’s policy, or consultation, or whatever it is, about reform of the rape sentencing rules overshadowing the deepening disagreement within the coalition twabout NHS reform. There are two main areas of policy that the Conservatives absolutely cannot afford to be seen to fail on if they are to…