BBC Question Time: open thread

by Stephen Tall on January 17, 2008

Chris Huhne, Lib Dem shadow home secretary, and the man 49% of the party voted to be its leader, is one of the panellists on 2008’s first edition of Question Time tonight (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm (…)

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Cross-party peers back Baker’s calls for fresh David Kelly inquiry

by Stephen Tall on January 17, 2008

So the Bexhill Observer informs us: Speaking in the Lords, Labour peer Lord Berkeley said the book contained sufficient evidence to warrant the opening of a new inquiry into the death of the government weapons inspector in 2003. In his (…)

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Is the party in a fix over its Euro referendum tactics?

by Stephen Tall on January 17, 2008

The Spectator’s Coffee House blog is reporting that the House of Commons clerks have kaiboshed Lib Dem plans to call for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union when Parliament debates the Lisbon (European reform) treaty: They (…)

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