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Rafael Behr

Rafael Behr is political editor of the New Statesman

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The Politics Interview — Ed Davey
03 April 2012

Ed Davey, the Climate Change Secretary, is an ardent Lib Dem Europhile who thinks David Cameron’s EU

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The Tory leadership will easily weather this mini-crisis
03 April 2012

But the scale of discontent with the Cameron-Osborne strategy hints at a brutal endgame in the futur

A few easy wins won’t calm Miliband’s restless backbenches
30 March 2012

Even when the Labour leader seems to be on a roll, no one seems to know where he is rolling to.

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Labour's insurgency bubble bursts
30 March 2012

While George Galloway was storming Bradford, the Westminster circus was chasing ministers with pasti

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Clegg helps Cameron change the subject
27 March 2012

Lib Dem MPs have felt the power of trade union money on the ground and resent it just as much as the

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38 Degrees - the real opposition?
26 March 2012

Inside the online campaign group that Conservative MPs fear the most.

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Osborne took a risk on the 50p tax to escape the quad-wrangle
22 March 2012

Why did the Chancellor take his great tax gamble? Because it shows who's really in charge.

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The real reason Clegg saved the NHS bill
22 March 2012

If the junior coalition party had killed the bill, Cameron would have appointed a Lib Dem health sec

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Osborne's crown slips
22 March 2012

The Tories are jumpy. The budget was meant to be unapologetically pro-business, instead it was a bun

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Teather: “Free schools must not make profit”
19 March 2012

It’s all unquiet on the Liberal Democrat front over government plans for private involvement in publ

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