Paul Linford

Labour hobbled itself in Thursday's election by choosing the wrong brother as leader in 2010, while the Liberal Democrats lost their pol...

So, then, David Miliband – political colossus, or inconsequential footnote?   The greatest loss to British politics since the fall of Marga...

It was Clement Attlee who famously told a Labour colleague that a period of silence from him would now be welcome, thereby inadvertently ear...

At first sight, former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn's criticisms of the Conservative-led Coalition's revamped health reforms...

With Labour leading in the opinion polls and the relationship between the Coalition partners growing increasingly fractious, it would be eas...

And so after all the hoo-ha, a relatively easy win for Labour and a creditable second place for the Liberal Democrats, with Nick Clegg's...

When future historians come to assess the political events of 2010, two big counterfactual questions are likely to loom large in their minds...

With his leadership of the Labour Party still barely two months old, it did not take long for talk of plots against Ed Miliband to start cra...

The day after David Miliband stepped aside from the Shadow Cabinet and Nick Brown was axed as Chief Whip, a Newcastle Journal headline posed...

Within hours of Ed Miliband's victory in the Labour leadership election last Saturday, friends of Tony Blair let it be known that the fo...

Behind all the brave talk of new generations, it is my fairly considered view that this Labour conference has been little short of a disaste...

Politics has seen many changes over the past couple of decades - but if there is one thing that has changed out of all recognition, it is th...

No leadership election occurs in a political vacuum. For good or ill, the current race for the leadership of the Labour Party will invariabl...

Cross-posted from Political Betting . Early on in the Labour leadership battle, Mike [Smithson] drew what I thought was potentially a good a...

After the initial thrill of seeing Liberal bums occupying ministerial seats for the first time since the wartime coalition of the 1940s, the...

And so at last the real cutting begins. A new hospital in Hartlepool. A business loan that would have guaranteed hundreds of jobs in Sheff...

The Con-Lib coalition overcame its first major crisis over the past week with the resignation of the Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws af...

Is politics returning to normal? Even before the government's pettyfogging decision to boycott Question Time over, of all things, the pr...

I have to confess to being decidedly underwhelmed thus far by the Labour leadership election. Aside from the fact that many of the best can...

Gordon Brown was always a party man at heart, and his decision to sacrifice himself in order to facilitate Labour's participation in a ...