ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Dr Daniel Poulter was last night selected for the Tory-held seat of Central Suffolk and Ipswich North. The retiring MP Michael Lord bequeaths a notional majority over the Liberal Democrats of 7,809 to his successor. It was a close contest;...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Consultant gynaecologist Daniel Poulter has this evening been selected to succeed Sir Michael Lord as Conservative candidate for Central Suffolk & North Ipswich. Graham Dines has the full story HERE on the East Anglian Daily Times website. Poulter was also a finalist for Beckenham, which selects next week. He beat five other candidates: Katy Bourne, Tim Clark, Joanna Gardner, Dominic Schofield,...
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
These are the six people hoping to win the Tory Party nomination to succeed Sir Michael Lord as MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich.
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Gosh, our local Tories do know how to have a good time! Whilst in South West Norfolk, the local Conservative Association has imploded over the question of Liz Truss's affair with Mark Field, somewhat closer to home, the final shortlist for the 27 November open primary for my neighbouring constituency of Central Suffolk and North Ipswich has sparked off a more basic but no less intriguing dispute....
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
CONSERVATIVES in Suffolk Central & Ipswich North have drawn up a short-list of six for the vacancy caused by the decision of Sir Michael Lord not to seek re-election.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
From the BBC: Alistair Burt, Conservative MP for North East Bedfordshire, read out the text of a letter he had received on a Blackberry during a debate in the House of Commons on anti-social behaviour. The Deputy Speaker Sir Michael Lord spotted Mr Burt’s device and asked: “Order. I wasn’t actually watching precisely then - were you actually reading from an electronic device.”...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Following the decision of Sir Michael Lord to step down at the general election, the Conservatives in Suffolk Central and Ipswich North are currently in the process of seeking a new candidate. The final six names in the frame are:...
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Meanwhile, in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (or CSI: Mendlesham as I like to think of it), we'll be getting a new MP at the next election, following Sir Michael Lord's announcement that he will be retiring. Given that he ran to be Speaker earlier this year, one presumes that, at that time, he felt capable of seeing out another term, so the announcement came as a bit of a surprise. Or not, as the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Two big money men sit behind a huge chunk of Tory online real estate… Michael Lord Ashcroft and Stephan Shakespeare.. both committed Tories and both quite loaded… Stephan subbed Iain Dale’s Doughty Street TV project, and then pulled the plug to put his cash into Tim Montgomery’s worthy online venture… Conservative Home… Iain then moved on to the Ashcroft funded...
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
WARM tributes have been paid to Sir Michael Lord, who announced at the weekend that he would stand down as a Suffolk MP at the general election.
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
SIR Michael Lord, who has been a Suffolk MP for 26 years, has announced he will retire at the next General Election.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
Deputy Commons Speaker Sir Michael Lord announces he will retire at the next general election.
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
This week, The Times had its monthly opinion poll: Conservatives- 38% (up 5.7% from the May 2005 general election) Labour- 26% (down 9.3%) Liberal Democrats- 20% (down 2.1%) Now, these are for Great Britain as a whole. Scotland's political scene is taking a different path, so it is an easy task to separate these into Scotland on one hand and England & Wales on the other. I will assume here that...
tc1415's Blog (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
This is not going to be an in depth statistical analysis, primarily because I have neither the time nor inclination - and as it is a secret ballot there is not a lot to do. Here goes. [Not much of a teaser here, I'm afraid, since a large table follows] <!--break--> Nominations Name Party Name Party Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett M.P. Labour Rt. Hon. Sir Alan James Beith M.P. Liberal Democrat Mr....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
In the House of Commons yesterday a chessboard's-worth of knights promised revolution. "Change is in the air," cried Sir Michael Lord, one of the more reactionary candidates for Speaker. "I want to be a driver for change," countered his rival Sir Alan Haselhurst, who has served as deputy speaker for a decade without any previously sign of enthusiasm for innovation. Even cautious...
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