Westminster Diary – Battle to be the UK’s third party
Going into the first parliamentary session of 2013, both halves of the Coalition have one party on their mind.
Politics
Westminster Diary – Are the voters being served?
Life at Westminster is often compared to a sitcom sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Glenda Jackson tarnishes Thatcher tributes
It shouldn’t really startle anyone when an Oscar winner steals the limelight.
Independence referendum: Controversy over campaign donors
Both Yes Scotland and Better Together published lists of major donors last week.
Scottish independence referendum – game on at last
Finally, the date of the referendum on Scottish independence has been decided September 18, 2014.
Budget debate descend into pantomime
In an effort to maintain order, Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle reminded MPs during Wednesday’s Budget statement that panto season doesn’t start for another nine months.
Sir Menzies Campbell says Iraq was illegal but Blair is not a criminal
Ten years on, there’s no doubt in the mind of Sir Menzies Campbell that the Iraq War was illegal.
Huhne’s exit is an opportunity for the Lib Dems
Chris Huhne’s dramatic exit from politics should have been an embarrassment for the Liberal Democrats.
Westminster Diary – Perhaps Osborne should run away
Given that the latest statistics show there have been more dips in the economy than at a fondue night, it was appropriate that the Prime Minister and his Chancellor were in Switzerland lately.
Westminster Diary – Kennedy and Brown: A glimpse of what politics has lost
Charles Kennedy and Gordon Brown both Scottish, both former party leaders, both political tragedies in their own way, and both making rare appearances in parliament last week.
Tax credits
more than a quarter of a million working Scottish families almost a fifth of all households with at least one person in work will be hit by Westminster plans to cut tax credits, it has been claimed.