Why didn’t David Miliband complain about this?

Why didn’t David Miliband complain about this?

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Should the votes involved have been disqualified? The other day I was having a conversation with a Labour figure who was furious about the manner of Ed Miliband’s election as Labour leader on September 25th last year. It will be recalled that David Miliband had clear margins amongst the party members and the party’s MPs/MEPs. The elder brother was also ahead in most of the affiliated organisations apart from in a small group of very large unions where voting papers…

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Is crime the issue that Michael Ashcroft thinks it is?

Is crime the issue that Michael Ashcroft thinks it is?

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Ipsos-MORI Would the MORI method have produced a different picture? Much has been made in the past week of Michael Ashcroft’s massive poll in which he sought to identify the issues that the Tories need to focus upon if they are to win a majority. He highlighted two policy strands: – the NHS and crime/law and order and it’s on the latter that there’s been much focus in recent days with the strong suggestion being that being “tough” is the…

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Is the Republican race now down to three?

Is the Republican race now down to three?

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Could my 200/1 shot possibly make it? Having tipped and backed Barack Obama for the 2008 White House race when he was 50/1 in May 2005 I was determined to try to repeat the success for 2012. So in November 2008 less than a fortnight after Obama’s victory I placed £50 with Ladbrokes at 200/1 against Jon Huntsman being the next president. When he accepted the post of ambassador to China from President Obama two and a half years ago…

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Will Campbell Bannerman’s exit put more pressure on Farage?

Will Campbell Bannerman’s exit put more pressure on Farage?

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BBC News What’s going wrong at the anti-EU party? Just a fortnight after one of UKIP’s leading figures, Marta Andreasen, called on Nigel Farage to resign there’s been another blow to the party leader, Nigel Farage. One of the party’s senior MEPs and a candidate in last autumn’s leadership election, David Campbell Bannerman, has announced that he’s defecting to the Tories. He said: the party had become “obsessed with single issue politics, internal fighting and shouting from the sidelines…With the…

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If Ken loses will it be Ed’s neck on the chopping block?

If Ken loses will it be Ed’s neck on the chopping block?

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HenryG on the challenges facing the Labour leader A significant article has just been published on the Tribune website – the journal of Labour’s heart and with longstanding union ties. It accurately sums up the frustrations many of us who supported Ed Miliband for Labour leadership have. It correctly identifies the importance of the London mayoral election and the growing unease at a tactical lack of unity behind Ken Livingstone’s campaign. It is my firm view that if Ken loses…

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Are you tempted by Obama bingo?

Are you tempted by Obama bingo?

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Will Obama say any of these? Ladbrokes price The Queen 1/4 Special Relationship 1/3 Northern Ireland 1/2 Democracy 1/2 Pakistan 4/6 Middle East evens Al Qaida 5/4 Olympics 6/4 Taliban 7/4 Royal Wedding 2/1 Gadaffi 2/1 Nine-Eleven 2/1 G20 2/1 Bin Laden 3/1 Shared Values 3/1 Royal Family 3/1 Historic Ties 4/1 Trusted Ally 4/1 War Of Independance 8/1 War on Terror 8/1 Healthcare 10/1 Gordon Brown 10/1 Winston Churchill 12/1 Barbecue 14/1 B.P 16/1 Yes We Can 16/1 Guinness…

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Was this an abuse of parliamentary privlige?

Was this an abuse of parliamentary privlige?

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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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