Paul Linford

So farewell then, Chris Huhne – well for the time being at any rate, as the erstwhile Energy Secretary quits in order to fight charges of pe...

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

And so the problems continue to pile up for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. First it was the local elections and the loss of 700 c...

Ever since the Coalition government was formed a year ago with the intention of governing for five years, a single overarching question has ...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote that if the Coalition government survived 2011, it would in all likelihood achieve its original objec...

When Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg took the historic gamble of joining the Tory-led coalition government last May, he created for himse...

Two weeks ago I concluded my review of the political year 2010 by posing a question which will, in my view, determine how the next 12 months...

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

Usually, it’s all over bar the shouting by 3am, sometimes even earlier if it is clear that one party has achieved a landslide. But this ha...

In my Journal column today I'm calling the 2010 general election against Gordon Brown and Labour. Not an easy one for me to write for re...

Gordon Brown may have survived the Cabinet crisis and the Euro-elections debacle, but Alan Johnson is still in the driving seat to lead Labo...

Who will be the next Speaker? Will there be an October election? And will we get proportional representation? Just some of the many una...

This week's column in the Newcastle Journal focuses on two stories - Peter Hain's resignation and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle, ...

Or maybe it was the story the government buried, I'm not quite sure. But amid all the excitement of the Hain resignation, the fact that...

A report out today from the Electoral Reform Society drives a further nail into the coffin of our discreidted first-past-the-post electoral...

The Guardian leads this morning on an opinion poll which shows support for Labour now down to 34pc with David Cameron's Tories on 38pc ...

New pro-constitutional reform website Liberty Central has gone live today, by happy coincedence on the day an important new report is publ...

My attention is drawn to the latest set of predictions by the excellent Electoral Calculus website which calculates election results on the...

The Electoral Reform Society has picked up on a column I wrote in the wake of the May 5 General Election about how the electoral system had ...