Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
There are two things I remember about the 1996 Labour Party conference. One was that the Shadow Minister for Women, Janet Anderson, claimed, attracting much derision, that: "Under Labour, women will become more promiscuous. That's an election pledge." David Cameron delivered a go...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
It's just been announced that Janet Anderson MP has pulled out of attending this morning's NEC meeting. She was the only MP attending who has requested a nomination paper, and was expected to demand at the meeting that papers should be sent out to every Labour MP. If I was being cynical I'd think she had been threatened with something by the whips... Meanwhile, the Scotsman speculates that Caroline...
Mandate Communications blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
The BBC’s Nick Robinson analyses Miliband’s ‘Kremlinology gone crazy’ dismissal of the motivations of the MPs involved in this weekend’s shennanighans against Gordon Brown. Strangely, it’s not yet been picked up that two of the conspirators - George Howarth and Janet Anderson - received personal plaudits from Tony Blair in his 2006 leaving speech for their loyalty. Clearly there is more to this than...
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
The BBC reports : An MP has been sacked as Labour's vice chair after publicly joining calls for a leadership election. Joan Ryan and four other Labour MPs - Fiona Mactaggart, Siobhain McDonagh, George Howarth and Janet Anderson - have asked for nomination forms. And fellow MPs Graham Stringer, Gordon Prentice and John McDonnell have called for a leadership contest. Entering the latest row on Saturday...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Britain is “watching the death throes of the Labour Party”, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said. This news comes following the revelations that Five Labour MPs - Fiona Mactaggart, Siobhain McDonagh, Joan Ryan, George Howarth and Janet Anderson - want leadership nomination forms sent out. And fellow MPs Graham Stringer and Gordon Prentice [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Gordon Brown is facing a growing revolt from Labour MPs who want to force a leadership election.
Boulton (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
As the names continue to trickle out (Siobhan McDonagh, George Howarth, Janet Anderson and Joan Ryan thus far), those who would wish a leadership election must choose their next move carefully. Ultimately this is a numbers game. It would take 71 MPs to trigger a contest, so progress towards that target should be their goal. But reaching that figure will undoubtedly involve the usual suspects - the...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Guido has yet to see a list of the "handful" of MPs who want a leadership election. So with the help of you co-conspirators shall we compile the list? Guido will start it off: Openly Janet Anderson Charles Clarke Jim Dowd Kate Hoey Siobhain McDonagh John McDonnell Alan Milburn Joan Ryan Graham Stringer Coded Karen Buck Patricia Hewitt George Howarth Eric Joyce Sally Keeble Stephen Ladyman Martin Linton...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Two more senior Labour MPs called publicly for a vote on whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown should continue as party leader.
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Progress, backed by the billionaire Lord Sainsbury is the Blairite factional organising group in the Labour Party. This is a statement they are releasing tomorrow* signed by a dozen Blairites - Janet Anderson, Karen Buck, Patricia Hewitt, George Howarth, Eric Joyce, Sally Keeble, Stephen Ladyman, Martin Linton, Shona McIsaac, Margaret Moran, Tom Levitt, and Paddy Tipping. LABOUR BACKBENCHERS DEMAND...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Janet Anderson, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0034, janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov; or Nancy Neal-Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1- 301-286-0039, nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov, both of NASA GREENBELT, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americas plans for opening the space frontier - including new human exploration of Earth's...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Janet Anderson, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0034, janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov; or Nancy Neal-Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1- 301-286-0039, nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov, both of NASA GREENBELT, Md., July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americas plans for opening the space frontier -- including new human exploration of Earth's...
