Archive of articles from 2008

Analysis: Green issues come of age

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The last few days might well go down in Westminster history as the time environmental issues came home to roost.

Rise of the e-petition

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Rise of the e-petition

Analysis: Tory win at Crewe and Nantwich

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Labour expected to lose this morning, but they were hoping to do so by a close margin. The party's fortunes have been so poor of late that such an outcome would have struck them as wholly acceptable.

Comment: Boris' first Question Time

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Boris Johnson delivered his trademark brand of literate ripostes to a fawning audience today during his first mayoral question time, the monthly meeting at which members of the London Assembly hold the mayor to account.

Editorial: A whole new way of losing the election

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This government needs another database like the Titanic needed another hole.

Review: Speaking for Myself by Cherie Blair

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Cherie doesn't disappoint, telling her story in the pugnacious manner with which she drove her husband to power.

ANALYSIS: Draft Queen's Speech

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If Gordon Brown's intention this morning was to prove he still has a political vision, many observers of today's Queen's Speech could be forgiven for thinking it's a Conservative vision.

PMQs: Playing it straight

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David Cameron spent the last half-hour before Wednesday's draft Queen's Speech gently undermining public confidence in the prime minister.

PMQs: More spinned against?

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The first PMQs after disastrous local elections was always going to be tough for Gordon Brown.

Analysis: Where did it all go wrong?

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Local election setbacks have been a long time coming for Gordon Brown.

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