Ben Davies
Ben Davies trained as a journalist after taking most of the 1990s off. Prior to joining the New Statesman he spent five years working as a politics reporter for the BBC News website. He lives in North London.
Articles by Ben Davies
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UK Politics
Davis quits over 42 days
- 12 June 2008
- 32 comments
Top Tory David Davis quits over his opposition to the 42 day detention decision in a major split with party leader David Cameron. Plus Stephen Brasher asks is this another George Lansbury?
UK Politics
My apologies to Stanley Johnson
- 14 May 2008
Fears I may have offended Pater Johnson, reports from inside China and Burma plus what's going on in our blogs...
UK Politics
Life after Ken
- 03 May 2008
- 8 comments
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?
UK Politics
Alun Michael: a concession was painted as a climbdown
- 02 May 2008
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
UK Politics
Smith: London could fall to Boris
- 02 May 2008
- 3 comments
The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tells newstatesman.com she fears Boris Johnson could be the next mayor of London
UK Politics
'It's not all doom and gloom'
- 02 May 2008
- 3 comments
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
UK Politics
Labour's worst results in 40 years
- 02 May 2008
- 6 comments
Labour is badly hit in local elections in England and Wales pushed into third place by Tories and Lib Dems
UK Politics
Lembit - more interesting than PR
- 22 April 2008
The Lib Dem MP is to marry his Cheeky Girl - as announced in Hello
UK Politics
Fantasy mayor
- 14 April 2008
- 5 comments
The launch of newstatesman.com's Fantasy Mayor game. Find out which candidate most closely matches your views
Life & Society
A decade of the NMA
- 08 April 2008
We celebrate 10 years of holding the New Media Awards - a decade of huge technological advances
