Boulton (Free subscription) | yesterday
EXCLUSIVE Is Michael Martin - or senior House of Commons officials - guilty of a cover-up or conspiracy over the Damian Green arrest fiasco? Is the former Speaker, or perhaps the Clerk of the House, Malcolm Jack, attempting to pin the blame for the arrest and the raid on Green's Commons office on the Sergeant at Arms, Jill Pay? I ask because Green has unearthed a major error in evidence given by Martin...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The last few days of Sky News has been dominated by the floods in Cumbria. And the story may not be over yet, with river levels in the region rising again. The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will join Adam Boulton to discuss what lessons need to be learned from this - and whether more money needs to be ploughed into the flood defences budget. We will also get the thoughts of the government's former...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Iain Dale: So you don't do what Ming Campbell used to do every morning when he was shaving and think: "God, I wish I'd stood against Charles Kennedy?" Vince Cable: No, absolutely not, I genuinely don't. I quite enjoyed the 'acting leader' period, and did quite well, but I've got a very full role. Read the whole thing in Total Politics .
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
19/11/2009WATCH:NEXT ON:Today, 22:35 on BBC One (except Scotland, Wales)SYNOPSISQuestion Time comes from Leicester, with a panel including Immigration Minister Phil Woolas MP, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling MP, Liberal Democrat MP Sir Menzies Campbell, the broadcaster Nick Ferrari and Independent MP Clare Short. David Dimbleby presents.CREDITSPresenterDavid DimblebyParticipantMing
Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It's #bbcqt day again and as usual the Live Chat on this blog will start tonight at 10:30pm. The panel will include the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas MP, the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling ( Alan Johnson's mini-me ), the Liberal Democrat MP and former leader Sir Menzies Campbell, the broadcaster Nick Ferrari (Richard Littlejohn's mini-me) and the Independent MP and former thorn in Tony Blair's...
Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In what promises to be a spectacularly lefty panel this week, Question Time features the Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, expenses trougher and LibDem Sir Menzies Campbell, and Clare Short who is now sitting as an Independent. Broadcaster Nick Ferrari will add weight (literally) to the proceedings in the plus an extra panelist seat. On the BBC website Short...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Vince Cable's memoirs may be hubristic, but Roy Hattersley is happy to forgive him There is much to like about Vince Cable and much to admire. But nothing reveals the secret of his success as graphically as his persona. While Nick Clegg, his party leader, subscribes to the David Cameron theory that successful politicians ought to look and sound like Rolls-Royce salesmen, Cable has the demeanour of...
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Iain Dale has set of a meme on the Internet of who you would have at your political dinner party, Iain has identified his 11 people over at his blog. This has then lead to Nick Thornsby to do a post on the subject , heck I have decided to run a post on my blog below. So my 11 people would be: Boris Johnson Lembit Opik Sajjad Karim Nick Clegg Ming Campbell Alex Hilton Iain Dale Afzal Anwar Tony Greaves...
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A special Commons committee chaired by Sir Ming Campbell is currently inquiring into the arrest of Damian Green MP last year, and search of his Parliamentary offices; and last Monday they heard evidence from the former Speaker, now Lord Martin. You can watch the full session here, and if you're interested in this affair, you should. This evidence is the final proof that Martin was unfit for his office.A...
Head of Legal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A special Commons committee chaired by Sir Ming Campbell is currently inquiring into the arrest of Damian Green MP last year, and search of his Parliamentary offices; and on Monday they heard evidence from the former Speaker, now Lord Martin. You can watch the full session here, and if you’re interested in this affair, you [...]
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
He has already been signed to succeed Jonathan Ross. That will save the corporation (or rather the licence fee payer) £18 million, for Nick Griffin comes at a bargain price (free) and his views are not quite so offensive. And, as far as Cranmer knows, Mr Griffin has never verbally assaulted a pensioner or made obscene phone calls. But he has managed to boost the Question Time audience to record...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Ahead of tonight’s BBC1 Question Time – featuring the BNP leader Nick Griffin – The Guardian reports his verdicts on his fellow panellists. Here’s what he said about Chris Huhne, the L:ib Dems’ shadow home secretary: Big hitter. Menzies Campbell would have been more daunting.” And here’s what he said about the other panellists: Bonnie Greer, American [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A parish notice on behalf of the LDV team … I am delighted to announce that Mark Pack is joining me as Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, effective immediately. Mark was a founding member of LDV, alongside Rob Fenwick, back in August 2006. His first post was entitled, Ming Campbell movie online. Ah, those were the [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Sir Menzies Campbell MP has today added his support to a parliamentary motion calling on the Government to reverse its decision to freeze funding for the Territorial Army. It emerged last week that Territorial Army units will be forced to stop training as a result of cuts to this years Army budget. Commenting, Sir Menzies said: “Pressure must be [...]
Ming Campbell MP (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
“Like every MP I have received a letter from Sir Thomas Legg setting out his provisional conclusions. “I will be writing to Sir Thomas to seek further clarification about the terms of his letter. If the final recommendation is that any sum requires to be repaid I will do so.”
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