http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008 en http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/fit-team-city-hall-police-bnp http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/fit-team-city-hall-police-bnp Sat, 03 May 2008 18:11:51 GMT Claire Provost Claire Provost, reporting on a demonstration outside City Hall on the night of the London mayoral count, finds herself put in a pen in by police. A case of democracy in action?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/boris-johnson-labour-london http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/boris-johnson-labour-london Sat, 03 May 2008 11:08:04 GMT Ben Davies Terrible results are capped off by Boris Johnson taking the mayoralty of London and with just a couple of years to the next election where does Labour go from here?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/labour-party-third-hails http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/labour-party-third-hails Fri, 02 May 2008 16:06:28 GMT Nick Clegg Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg hails his party's performance in the 1 May elections when they pushed Labour into third place

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/green-party-local-performance http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/green-party-local-performance Fri, 02 May 2008 15:19:06 GMT Caroline Lucas The Green Party's Caroline Lucas responds to their performance in the 1 May local elections

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/alun-michael-tax-concessions http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/alun-michael-tax-concessions Fri, 02 May 2008 14:55:06 GMT Ben Davies Former Welsh Secretary and first minister Alun Michael says the 10p tax issue played very badly with voters and in the end concessions from Gordon Brown came too late

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/smith-london-boris-mayor http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/smith-london-boris-mayor Fri, 02 May 2008 14:17:14 GMT Ben Davies The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tells newstatesman.com she fears Boris Johnson could be the next mayor of London

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/martin-salter-labour-ann-today http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/martin-salter-labour-ann-today Fri, 02 May 2008 12:53:57 GMT Ben Davies Labour MPs are curiously hard to find today not surprisingly after they've had such gloomy news but we managed to track down Ann Clwyd and Martin Salter

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/labour-liverpool-city http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/labour-liverpool-city Fri, 02 May 2008 11:42:34 GMT Warren Bradley Lib Dem Warren Bradley, who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in Liverpool after securing the surprise support of an ex-Labour councillor who'd turned independent, argues his party deprived Labour of its number one target on 1 May

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/martin-bright/2008/05/general-election-results http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/martin-bright/2008/05/general-election-results Fri, 02 May 2008 10:29:05 GMT Martin Bright It's even worse than the worst Labour imagined. Martin Bright warns that if the Tories are smug about these results imagine how they will be after they win a general election

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