Paul Linford

Originally posted on my Facebook page on the day after David Cameron stepped down as PM and Theresa May took the carving knife to his Cabine...

Despite having a very good local constituency MP in Pauline Latham, here's why I won't be voting for her party on Thursday. 1.  Th...

Pains me to say it, but Osborne has played a blinder over the £6bn Greater Manchester health funding deal and in so doing posed a real polit...

The Government has talked a lot about devolution over recent months but do Messrs Cameron and Osborne actually understand the meaning of the...

While there was much to applaud in George Osborne's autumn statement, there remains a fundamental disconnect between the Chancellor'...

The arrogance of George Osborne in seeking to impose a system of 'metro mayors' on cities which have already rejected the idea is qu...

This week's Journal column, focusing on the long-running saga of the A1 dualling project and what it tells us about the need for greater...

Here's my annual political review of the year, published in this morning's Newcastle Journal. Until the early months of this year,...

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...

OF all leading Conservative politicians of the past half century, the former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine is perhaps the one ...

When the history of David Cameron’s government comes to be written, the Budget delivered by Chancellor George Osborne on 21 March may well b...

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...

Over the past few weeks, the domestic political agenda has been dominated by the continuing fallout from what has by now surely become of th...

There is a hoary old adage in British politics that a Budget that looks good on the day invariably looks like a turkey a few weeks later. ...

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...

Youth unemployment topping 1m. An additional 129,000 people out of work in the past month. The overall number of jobless at its highest l...