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...

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...

You can look at yesterday's local election results purely in terms of the 400 or so council seats lost by the Conservatives and the 800...

As anyone who has ever worked at Westminster for any length of time will know, there are certain fixed points in the parliamentary calendar ...

So, what to make of the new Cabinet line-up unveiled by Nick and Dave (as they are now referring to eachother) earlier today? On the whole...

Rather than suffer political death by a thousand cuts - or resignations - has the time come for Gordon Brown to employ the ultimate sanction...

A collective madness appears to be descending on the Labour Party as it faces the prospect of humiliation in Thursday's local and Europe...

Most journalists have a favourite story, and most people who knew me in my Lobby days would probably assume mine was the infamous Eddie Geor...

Reaction to the Tory reshuffle and the return of Ken Clarke has been generally positive today - well, from Tories at least. But as I made c...

I've not written anything thus far over the big issue gripping the Tories at the moment, namely the potential return of Ken Clarke to th...

We were told that seven ministers were going to resign, that Ruth Kelly's was just the first in a series of departures which would deliv...

One for Labour kremlinologists, this, but the return of Peter Mandelson and Nick Brown to the Cabinet at the same time is significant. Thes...

So Gordon Brown is enjoying a new surge in popularity and there won't be a big reshuffle after all. How times change. One is reminded ...

I know not why Ruth Kelly has announced her intention to resign from the Cabinet. Some will probably be prepared to take her assertion tha...

The September reshuffle will be key to determining whether Gordon Brown faces a leadership challenge this autumn. Here's today's co...

Nick Robinson posed an interesting question on the Today Programme this morning - for those who missed it, he has helpfully reproduced the e...

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

Gordon's first enforced reshuffle is now almost complete and it is clear he won't be doing either of the things that I urged in my ...

Well, I said it was only a matter of time . The interesting thing now is to see how Gordon responds to this, his first, enforced reshuffle. ...

Yesterday Dizzy speculated that the government was about to create a new Department for Devolved Affairs from the existing Scottish, Welsh ...