Paul Linford

There are, broadly speaking, two schools of thought about what the Labour Party needs to do to win the next general election. One is that ...

At the end of last week’s column, on the back of an opinion poll showing the party 11 points clear of the Tories, I suggested that the next...

Andy Murray will win Wimbledon, Roberto Mancini will be sacked as manager of Manchester City, David and Victoria Beckham will return to the ...

Honeymoon period is doubtless an overworked term in politics – but all governments to some extent or other tend to enjoy a period of time in...

And so the new political year begins moreorless exactly where the old one left off…with Labour leader Ed Miliband’s long-term survival prosp...

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...

The week before last, 81 Conservative MPs ignored the blandishments of the party whips, and the pleas of Prime Minister David Cameron, to de...

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

Over the course of the last couple of centuries, the Church of England has frequently if rather inaccurately been caricatured as "the C...

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

A little late due to stuff I won't bore you with...but here's my take on the Budget as published in Saturday's Journal. Over ...

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

As Sir John Chilcott's Inquiry into the war in Iraq continued to chip away at Tony Blair's historical reputation this week, another ...

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...

Ever since the new coalition came into office, the consensus has been that its political honeymoon would last only as long as it took for re...

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

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...