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Former Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy and ex-Provost Alan Sellar today joined Danny Alexander to campaign on the streets of Inverness as the General Election campaign enters its final week. The trio were joined by supporters aboard a vintage MacBrayne's bus – borrowed for the day – to make the [...]

In the next few days I am going to seek to fill the blackhole in Labour and Lib Dem spending plans by reviewing again what needs to be done to bring public spending more into line with revenue. [...]

Yesterday, I attended the last hustings of the campaign, this time an all-North Wales event hosted by the CBI at Bethesda. The Liberal Democrats were represented by Bill Brereton, the former deputy chief constable of North Wales.   My friend and fellow Welsh select committee member, Hywel Williams, appeared for Plaid Cymru. Labour [...]

The latest media take on this election is that some major subterranean disturbance has occurred deep below the political surface, only nobody will be sure what it is until too late.   It really isn’t that difficult, if only our over-paid and often rather lazy media would look in the [...]

Andy Reed will lead out his President XV rugby side at Birstall again this year on Sunday. This year the funds raised from the charity game will go to the injured player Richard Engelgardt's Trust. Andy said "This is a long standing commitment. There is no way I could let down [...]

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I wasn't sure what the residents of Woburn who don't have front gardens were going to do with their Corex posters, but I soon found out. Those who do have a front fence or garden have also, er, made the point! Thank you to everyone who has pu... [...]

The blogger Anna Racoon has invited a range of people to put out the case for their own party. Here's my contribution: Dear Anna Racoon I didn’t think someone like me could be a politician. I am second generation immigrant and came from a family with very few books where we were [...]

Excellent posters which tell it as it is re Lib Dem policy, not as Nick Clegg tells it when on TV. From conservativehome.com  ... [...]

Just picked up an email telling me that Protecting Animals in Democracy have decided to endorse me "as the best voting option in your constituency to protect millions of animals from the cruelty of bloodsports, intensive farming and painful experiments."The email goes on to say: "We believe that the [...]

I TOOK some time off the campaign this morning to attend the funeral of a friend, Gerry Carroll. Gerry was a very well-known and respected solicitor in Glasgow, and was made a QC two years ago. But it was his role in my local Labour Party for which I knew him [...]

I TOOK some time off the campaign this morning to attend the funeral of a friend. Gerry Carroll was a very well-known and respected solicitor in Glasgow, and was made a QC two years ago. But it was his role in my local Labour Party for which I knew him best. Before [...]

I helped celebrate the Kent Autistic Trust’s Big Lottery Fund grant yesterday which is going to support their two family support workers to continue doing their great work for 5 more years. This is really good news. It means that they can continue to help families in the [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the scope to save billions on the capital budget. A few wrote in to say it was not enough. Of course it isn’t enough. I am writing another series of pieces on the actions a new [...]

The government has imposed targets for many more homes in Wokingham Borough. The Council has had to decide on where these could go to comply, and has pointed out it will also need a new secondary school to provide [...]

SINCE Gordon has, inadvertently, placed immigration centre stage in the campaign, I thought I would follow up a brief conversation I had on Twitter last night about the LibDems’ proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants. I originally thought that Daniel “the Fink” Finkelstein had nailed the central weakness of the plan when [...]

The idea of a Great Repeal Bill - first proposed by Daniel Hannan and myself in The Plan two years ago - has now been taken up by David Cameron, who has announced it as a priority for the next government. With so [...]

The police deserve a big thank you for the way that they maintained the peace on Saturday. Policing a demonstration of this size and within the confimed spaces of the town centre was a major challenge. All of us owe a debt to the professionalism, careful planning and sheer hard work by our [...]

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So far the UK appears to have come off lightly compared to Greece. This is owing to the huge devaluation in the UK currency, which means a lot of the hit on living standards which Greece is now taking from wage [...]