The Political Week Online: Sniffing between the lines
Tony Blair denies having an affair with Wendi Deng, Boris Johnson compares humans to cornflakes, and everyone else gets high.
Analysis: Why David Cameron’s right to snub the Scots
While Scottish celebs will be earnestly chewing the delicately-prepared fat over Alex Salmond’s independence white paper, the prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be having dinner with EU leaders.
PMQs verdict: Miliband drags himself into the mud
It’s hard to work out who Ed Miliband was trying to impress today.
The Political Week Online: Austerity forever?
Against the backdrop of a parliamentary debate on the ‘bedroom tax,’ David Cameron announced this week that his policy of downsizing the state isn’t going to stop when the economic crisis is over.
The Political Week Online: Conservatives, cows, and Christmas
The House of Commons debates bringing forward the proposed EU in-out referendum. The Taxpayers’ Alliance debates replacing them all with chickens to cut costs. (Okay we made that up.)
Shrinking power: One Direction and supermarket boss humiliate Cameron in influence stakes
A supermarket chief and five-piece global pop phenomenon have handed David Cameron’s status twin setbacks this morning.
Tory MPs to make formal complaint to Speaker Bercow
Senior Conservative MPs plan to make a formal complaint to John Bercow amid suggestions the Speaker personally “hates” David Cameron.
PMQs verdict: Cameron consumed by the red peril
These exchanges are all about momentum and the momentum was with Ed Miliband right from the moment John Major sat down at the press gallery lunch yesterday.
The Political Week Online: Jumpers, whips, and breasts
Andrew Mitchell has been vindicated. David Cameron denies #jumpergate. And Gloria de Piero has a pair of breasts.
Sketch: Intense, but nothing new from David Cameron
The prime minister David Cameron was in fighting mode as he delivered his speech to the Conservative party conference in MAnchester. And it’s all getting a little bit scary.
