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Has Brown found the vision thing?
- Martin Bright
- 26 March 2007
Fresh from being likened to Stalin, Gordon Brown sought to establish his credentials as a new and likeable leader for Britain. But did his final Budget answer his critics?
Cameron's continued conjuring trick
- Martin Bright
- 12 March 2007
- 2 comments
These past few weeks could have been torrid for the Conservative leader if Labour had not been in such a state of self-lacerating panic over cash for honours and other problems
This way madness lies . . .
- Martin Bright
- 05 March 2007
- 1 comment
Some former Labour ministers are so rattled by Gordon Brown's poor performance in the polls that they are considering a suicidal strategy: let him have the premiership - but only on probation
Petition power cannot be brushed aside
- Martin Bright
- 19 February 2007
- 1 comment
The road pricing crisis should be seen as the first challenge of the Gordon Brown era. It will be Brown, not Tony Blair, who will have to deal with its consequences
Wanted: leader with a ruthless streak
- Martin Bright
- 12 February 2007
- 2 comments
Ming Campbell continues to underperform. As senior Lib Dems jockey for position, they ask whether their man is too weak or whether their party is going through its usual midterm disappearing trick
A new credibility and a new scrutiny
- Martin Bright
- 05 February 2007
Loans for honours has led to a cold fear gripping Labour. But the more electorally credible Cameron becomes, so attention will focus on the links in his party between cash and influence
A bullying lesson for a future PM
- Martin Bright
- 29 January 2007
Jade and Danielle are neither Blair's children nor Thatcher's. They spent their formative school years under John Major, a lost period when child-centred learning was demonised
Don't let civil servants blame it on us
- Kitty Ussher
- 22 January 2007
- 2 comments
The logical response to the Home Office crisis is to make Whitehall officials more accountable for their actions, or inactions - rather than calling for ministerial sackings
Wanted: a year devoid of sensation
- Martin Bright
- 08 January 2007
- 1 comment
Brown and Cameron should try to make politics as dull as possible
The known unknowns with much to prove
- Martin Bright
- 18 December 2006
- 1 comment
We imagined that the system was incorruptible. But by the end of 2006 the myth of the British honesty gene had been exploded by the loans for peerages inquiry
