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...

Yesterday I outlined why I don't think the current Tory-Lib Dem coalition deserves to be re-elected.  Here's why I hope a Lab-Lib co...

My preview of the political year 2015, first published in yesterday's Journal.   It is Thursday, December 31, 2015. The newly-elect...

My end-of-conference season round-up is now online at The Journal website.  I argue that the fragmentation of British politics into a four-p...

I was dismayed to read that the party leaders - and Gordon Brown - have pledged to continue the Barnett Formula as part of their three-point...

IF a week is a long time in politics, then two weeks is twice as long – and the fortnight since this column last appeared seems to have been...

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

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

Broken promises are nothing new in politics.   From the Labour Party’s 110-year-old pledge to introduce an elected House of Lords to George ...

Much has changed for David Cameron over the course of his seven years in charge of the Conservative Party – but there are two aspects of his...

Shortly after Rupert Murdoch sacked him as editor of The Times in 1982, the great newspaperman Harold Evans wrote a book about his experien...

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...

There is a school of thought that says that once a government gets itself into a position where it needs a relaunch, the brand is probably ...

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. ...

THIS week, The Journal reported that there had been more than 900 objections lodged with the Boundary Commission over its plan to alter the ...

In last week's column, I suggested that the key strategic task facing the Liberal Democrats as they gather for their spring conference i...

Back in the bad old days of two-party politics, the Liberal Democrat spring conference was one of those recurring events in the political ca...

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...

‘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...