u-turn Articles

I began Business of the House Questions this morning by reminding the Commons that tomorrow is International Women’s Day. It is disappointing that the government has chosen to celebrate this by proposing to remove the Equality and Human Rights Commission's general...

Which Labour policy would, according to Michael Gove’s Hyperbole Machine, leave ‘millions of state school pupils unemployable’? That would be the Technical Baccalaureate policy which Gove has this week picked up, having realised that he should probably contribute to...

The forecast for Labour's conference is set fair in a manner unimaginable at the start of the year, amid the long and sometimes dark transition from one leader to another. The leadership’s opponents inside the party have drifted away and his opponents beyond it are in...

I always try very hard not to be partisan when I judge the outcome of PMQs, but after today’s episode, I can’t imagine anyone would disagree that Ed Miliband had a very good day – and David Cameron had a terrible one.  We know the public often judge 'winners' on style...