Denis MacShane MP Articles

France likes to surprise. Three months ago it seemed so obvious a re-election for Sarkozy that David Cameron and Angela Merkel couldn't wait to endorse him. Three weeks ago it was Hollande who was gliding faultlessly if unexcitingly to power. Three days ago all the...

David Cameron’s latest back-to-the-1980s gimmick is to give a big bribe to council home renters to buy their property. As with his backfired stunt last week to depict fuel tanker drivers as the new Scargillites against whom the nation should unite, or the over-the-top...

One of the most curious aspects of the cash-for-access scandal if that no one has made the case for a major reform of political funding so that the scandals that keep on erupting can finally be killed off. Instead there has been a ritualised round of mutual...

Two Tory MPs have recently made striking confessions. Eric Ollerenshaw has said the Conservatives are losing the north. In his Lancashire circles people see David Cameron or even George Osborne and Nick Clegg who have northern seats as posh rich southern boys with no...