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Who’s got their party back?
Well, that escalated quickly. When he entered the Labour leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn was best known to...
Big tent or sideshow?
Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village Cast your mind back a decade. As a Labour supporter, perhaps you...
The once and future Ken?
No doubt experts elsewhere in this month’s Progress are cogently analysing the consequences of the riots, explaining...
Sound and fury, signifying nothing
Still, this is a gossip column, and you're reading it for gossip, not high-minded piffle arguing that these people...
Upstairs, Downstairs
Desperate tactics in the House of Lords of late, as the Abolition of the Labour Party Act - or the Parliamentary...
General release
General release The job of Labour general secretary grew smaller and more unstable in government. Labour got through...
A flat cap cabinet?
If you want to get ahead, get a tyke. That seems to be the motto of the parliamentary Labour party.The leader, chief...
Confessions of a shopaholic
Even Downing Street policy wonks were alarmed to see the Institute for Fiscal Studies' (IFS) analysis of that leaked...
MPs holidaying hard
The summer months in the House of Commons bring a crane to the buttress of the building underneath Big Ben. Everywhere...
Lewis applies the lipstick
Another day, another Downing Street communications relaunch. Is this the fifth or sixth since Gordon Brown entered...
Not Blair, not Brown – but Blears
At some point in the last few months YouTube turned from a harmless extra to something that could kill. Gordon...