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Shami Chakrabarti lays into Andy Burnham

The Liberty director has hit back with an absolute howitzer of a letter to Burnham in which she threatens to sue him for "slurs....innuendo and attempted character assassination." She also sharply points out that the culture secretary - like her - has ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Andy Burnham,  Shami Chakrabarti

BBC and non-breaking news

Lord knows I am a defender of the BBC but how can it possibly justify the following as "breaking news" on the front page of its website? "Little Britain star Matt Lucas ends relationship with his partner Kevin McGee". Who on God's earth gives a ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Matt Lucas

Tories must stop arguing about Europe

Full coverage of UK Politics It was back to the future at PMQs today - a session dominated by Europe. There were some flickers of recovery from Gordon Brown, helped to my mind by Tory backbenchers - and also David Cameron. The Conservative leader ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  David Cameron,  Gordon Brown,  Liberal Democrats,  Ann Winterton

David Davis under fire

The true depth of the anger felt by senior Tories at the decision by David Davis to resign his parliamentary seat and fight a by-election is revealed publicly for the first time in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow when a leading Conservative breaks cover ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  14 Jun 2008
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  David Davis,  Gordon Brown

EU referendum: Ireland says No to the Lisbon treaty

With domestic attention focused on the extraordinary David Davis affair we should not overlook what is happening on the other side of the Irish Sea. With counting still being completed it looks very much as though Irish voters have torpedoed the EU's ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Dermot Ahern

A glimpse of David Cameron's true feelings over David Davis's resignation

Full coverage of UK Politics David Cameron has just given the first public glimpse of his true feelings toward David Davis's "highly principled" decision to resign and fight a by-election. Speaking to an audience of business leaders at Cornwall's Eden ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron,  David Daniel Davis,  Gordon Brown,  Kelvin MacKenzie

The DUP rescue Gordon Brown over 42-day detention

Full coverage of UK Politics It’s the DUP what won it....Make no mistake, Gordon Brown has been saved from humiliation by a hair's breadth tonight. Only the nine votes of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists - who marched into the Aye lobby at the last ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Ian Paisley,  Manchester United

Labour's brand is tarnished

More gloom for Gordon Brown in an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow which gives the Conservatives a healthy lead. It also reveals a stark truth about Labour under Brown - the brand has now become so tarnished that even his most ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  7 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  David Davis

Caroline Spelman's 'nannygate' saga

Nannies have a habit of causing trouble for senior politicians. It was David Blunkett's "Nannygate" drama - his office was found to have intervened in a visa application on behalf of a nanny who worked for his then lover, Kimberly Quinn - that cost him ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  7 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Blunkett,  Kimberly Quinn,  William Hague,  Eric Pickles

David Cameron's political ties

What matters is not what is being dresses in, but what is in the suit. We need a leader with mental strength intelligence and good chsritrian moral values to fight the evil terror threat. Tht is why we must heep the present PM. ...

From PATRICK HENNESSY, The Telegraph,  5 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron

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