Posts Tagged “paul waugh”
Tim Farron in outspoken and honest interview shock!
by Stephen Tall on March 8, 2013
An interview with Tim Farron is never a dull one, that’s for sure. I found that out when I spoke to him for the party magazine, Ad Lib, last month — prompting the headline, Lib Dem brand ‘tainted by Tories’ (£), in The Sunday Times. Today’s he’s in the headlines for an interview in The [...]
5 points on Clegg’s admission that Coalition was wrong to cut capital spending
by Stephen Tall on January 25, 2013
Nick Clegg has sparked a flurry of excitement with his admission in an interview for The House magazine that the Coalition cut capital spending ‘too far, too fast’ to coin a phrase. Here’s what he said to Paul Waugh and Sam Macrory: “If I’m going to be sort of self-critical, there was this reduction in [...]
Vince the Lib Dem Eurosceptic on the “extraordinarily historically important” European single market
by Stephen Tall on January 12, 2013
I’m grateful to PoliticsHome’s Paul Waugh for reporting Vince Cable’s words stressing the importance of the EU’s single market at a time of deep austerity in the western world: “State aide cuts to the heart of the big debate which is rippling though our country at the moment which is about our future within the [...]
Your essential weekend reader — 8 must-read articles you may have missed
by Stephen Tall on October 20, 2012
It’s Saturday morning, so here are eight thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices… Three big things I’ve got wrong since I’ve starting blogging and commenting – ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie confesses to a trio of big errors on the NHS, higher-rate tax and equalities: “One of the many reasons I don’t want to be an [...]
No. 10 admits Clegg right to differentiate Lib Dems from Tories/Labour over cosying-up to Murdoch
by Stephen Tall on April 25, 2012
In today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, a riled David Cameron appealed across the political divide to the other major conservative party in the Commons, inviting all politicians to accept they’d been guilty of cosying-up to the Murdochs’ News International empire. Nick (…)
Has the mystery of the ‘unidentified Lib Dem’ asked to lobby Vince about Murdoch been solved?
by Stephen Tall on April 25, 2012
Amid all the questions floating round yesterday following the extraordinary revelations exposed by the Leveson inquiry, was this intriguing one: who was the ‘Lib Dem MP’ referred to by Frederic Michel, News Corp’s director of public affairs (Europe), lined-up to (…)
EXCLUSIVE: 72% of Lib Dem members backed reshuffle return for David Laws. (But it wasn’t to be.)
by Stephen Tall on February 4, 2012
Earlier this week, LibDemVoice started asking party members signed up to our discussion forum a range of questions — the survey is still live, but one of the questions is already a little previous so we’re reporting it early… We asked: Would you support or oppose David Laws making a return to government at the [...]
What’s the difference between Ryan Giggs and Ed Miliband? Nick Clegg tells all…
by Stephen Tall on June 16, 2011
In the USA they have the White House correspondents’ dinner, an occasion for leading politicians to take pot-shots at the media, themselves, and – most crucially – their opponents. Barack Obama’s quip-assault on Donald Trump ended the wannabe Republican presidential hopes before they’d begun. The UK has no equivalent, but (as PoliticsHome’s Paul Waugh notes) [...]
Hughes on Cameron’s council tenancies plans: “It is not a Liberal Democrat policy, it is not a coalition policy.”
by Stephen Tall on August 4, 2010
Lib Dem Voice’s Sara Bedford reported here this morning her reaction to David Cameron’s suggestion that he wanted to look at fixed-term tenancies to help solve the issue of scarce council housing. Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes has been quick to make plain his outright opposition to the proposal, telling the Evening Standard’s Paul [...]
How the Westminster Village media is still struggling with concept of coalition
by Stephen Tall on July 21, 2010
It can be surprisingly easy to excite some journalists. Today is a case in point. Nick Clegg stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions. During his exchanges with Jack Straw (who was standing in for Labour’s Harriet Harman), the Deputy Prime Minister referred to the invasion of Iraq as “illegal”. To most people [...]
