Cameron: Bring on Labour's Empty Horses

DAVID CAMERON is either foolhardy or refuses to acknowledge what appears to be blindingly obvious - he wants an early General Election. Turkeys and Christmas come to mind. Eight weeks ago, the Tories looked odds-on to at least become the largest...

Forza unitaries

I MAKE no secret of my support for unitary local government. With Ipswich about to join the likes of Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock, Luton, and Peterborough by becoming all-purpose enclaves within two-tier counties, surely it's time to sweep away the small...

From Rwanda with love

WHEN your constituents are up to their collective navels in stinking flood water, what do you do? Heading off to Rwanda to lecture the world on Third World debt would not be top of most opposition politicans' must do list.   While of course...

By-elections: After the headline euphoria comes the in depth realisation

THE two parliamentary by-elections in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield were, at best, a disappointment for the Tories and especially David Cameron, a relief for the Liberal Democrats and especially Sir Menzies Campbell, and satisfactory for Labour and a...

Shifting sands

CHRIS Moncreiff, one of the most distinguished journalists covering the House of Commons, writes in today's East Anglian Daily Times: "The Conservative Party is in a mess." It's easy to see where he's coming from, with the Tories desperately trying...

A staid occasion

PMQ's yesterday was a muted affair, given that concerns over security are uppermost in people's minds. But even though we should take this into consideration, and have to forgive an understandable anxiety because it was his first question time, it...