Paul Linford

IN terms of the political big picture, Chancellor George Osborne’s autumn statement on Wednesday this week may well come to be seen as a...

Ever since the formation of the Coalition between David Cameron’s Conservatives and Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats in the aftermath of the M...

An extra £111bn of borrowing over the next five years. A fresh squeeze on public spending. No prospect of any tax cuts before the next gen...

‘Make or break’ is doubtless an overused term in politics. Many are the times when it is said that a politician needs to make the “speech o...

IN last week's column, I wrote that the coalition government's key political success since taking office was to have pinned the blam...

Are the Tories economic saviours - or are they just opportunistic ideologues using the deficit crisis as an excuse to finish Thatcher's ...

Ever since it first surfaced during the 1992 US presidential campaign, the claim that all elections are essentially about “the economy, stup...

The Prime Minister's belated decision to send more troops to Afghanistan is all of a piece with his failure to anticipate the MPs' e...

The North Tyneside MP's comments on Gordon Brown's economic policies this week may have been deeply unhelpful, but his analysis is s...

Probably not if he still wants to win the next election. But there is another option for Labour. Here's today's Journal column. Cha...

A month into the new year, the 2008 media narrative of the Second Brown Bounce now seems a very distant memory. Here's today's Jour...

Much of the criticism of the Heathrow decision has centred on what it says about the government's environmental credentials, but there i...

There's an old saying in politics that Budgets look different a week after they are delivered than a day after - and I guess Pre-Budgets...

VAT down from 17.5pc to 15pc. New higher tax band for the super-rich. £3bn of capital spending brought forward. National insurance to go ...

The age of political cross-dressing came to an end this week as David Cameron tore up his pledge to match Labour's spending plans. Here...

Brown to call snap election? Cameron to be replaced by Ken Clarke? Political pundits should stop getting carried away by the idea of a ...