Articles tagged with: nick clegg
The Liberals have had their first taste of ministerial power since David Lloyd George’s government. What has happened over the first 100 days of the coalition, and what can we predict of their trajectory for the coming years?
Today marks a 100 days since the coalition government came to power. Hannah Rich looks back at some of the major events in this landmark period.
Tarquin Christoph examines the firestorm over Alan Milburn’s new role in the coalition government.
Are Nick Clegg’s proposals for reforming the British Constitution beginning to look like more of the same than the ‘change’ that was promised during the election?
Thank god for Diane Abbott, and perhaps even more so, for David Miliband. Were it not for these two sterling defenders of human rights, liberty and diversity, women and ethnic minorities would be unrepresented in …
Those who claim Britain was not a three party state before this election, cannot possible make the same claim now.
Robert Kennedy once pointed out, “everyone likes the word progressive but no one likes the word change.” So what is ‘progressive’ politics?
(c) Sarah Evans
I had been chasing John McDonnell for an interview ever since he announced his candidacy. When I finally spoke with him, late last Thursday evening, he had just arrived at his constituency …
(c) Nick-Clegg
Nick Clegg yesterday asked for suggestions from us, the ordinary people, of laws and regulations to repeal. Well, to borrow and not give back an overused phrase, if I had a penny for every …
As politicians model themselves on celebrities the British public is taking them less seriously and the boundaries between politics and showbiz are blurring.
The Liberal Democrats have achieved such a prestigious position in government that they are highly unlikely to give it up. But despite being a part of active governance, the Liberal Democrats risk their own credibility. Unless clear Liberal Democrat proposals result in consequent policies, any other such legislation will look like a Conservative , or Cameron blessed, policy.
