Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

The candidates

Lucy Powell (Labour), Charlotte Leslie (Conservatives) and Bridget Fox (Liberal Democrats) are all standing in the next general election

1 December 2008

  • An MP's job is to uncover information for the public good

    Charlotte Leslie: Of course there are national security issues that should not reach the public domain, but they are relatively few

28 November 2008

  • Damian Green case shows we are taking freedom of information for granted

    Bridget Fox: We had to fight for the principle that the public should have free access to government information – unless national or personal security was at risk

24 November 2008

  • Only excellence should do for local government

    Charlotte Leslie: Is the John Sergeant saga a sign that we as a nation prefer the unthreatening bumbler to excellence?

21 November 2008

  • It's Brown, not Islington's workers, who deserves a P45

    Liberal Democrats should be feeling sincerely flattered. Labour has plundered virtually all our policy ideas on the economy, leaving Vince Cable unchallenged for the title of Best Value Government Consultant – as well as the Spectator's Parliamentarian of the Year

17 November 2008

  • Charlotte Leslie eating a traditional Sunday roast dinner. Photograph: Charlotte Leslie

    Tories and Obama embrace web 2.0 while Labour lags behind

    Charlotte Leslie: The internet is completely changing the way politics - and candidates like me - work

14 November 2008

  • A Metrolink tram moves through the centre of Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond

    Manchester should vote yes to the congestion charge

  • Labour is ditching its policies through panic not principle

10 November 2008

  • The Queen lays a wreath at the Cenotaph to honour Britain’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday

    Remembrance is not just an emotional journey

    To properly give our respects to the war dead, war survivors and those still serving our country, we must provide our armed forces with proper equipment

7 November 2008

  • Barack Obama lit up my bonfire night

    Nina Simone summed up the mood: "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life - and we're feeling good"

31 October 2008

  • David Laws and Bridget Fox. Photograph: Bridget Fox

    Labour has been behaving as though rainy days have been abolished

    Bridget Fox: There is no point oiling the wheels with public money if the banks have the brakes on

24 October 2008

  • Labour is back on the attack

    Lucy Powell: No, I'm not talking about alleged Tory fundraising tactics on a yacht in Corfu

20 October 2008

  • Businesses do need a break

    We are reliant on family businesses to keep our economy afloat; increasing the burden of tax on them is a mistake

17 October 2008

  • Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or

    Lucy Powell: Yesterday's statement by the new secretary of state for energy and climate change, Ed Miliband, making Britain's emissions reduction target even more ambitious took many by surprise

10 October 2008

  • Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers

    Lucy Powell: It's hard to know what to write during times like this. Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening

6 October 2008

  • People want politicians to serve them, not fight among themselves

    Charlotte Leslie: A question from a voter took me back to a sharp wake-up call I'd had during the Tory conference

3 October 2008

  • Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move

    Lucy Powell: These weeks may be remembered as the moment Labour regained control of the political agenda

30 September 2008

  • Crisis exposes twin Tory weaknesses: bad experience in the past and inexperience today

    Bridget Fox: If a week is a long time in politics, then a day is a long time in finance. Business news used to be dry, but that's all changed

26 September 2008

  • Brown's pensions rhetoric doesn't match reality

    This year marks the centenary of the pension. Since then, it has been continually eroded by Labour and Tory governments

22 September 2008

  • The country has been wrecked by a leftist government

    Charlotte Leslie: Once again, it will take hard-headed, sensible, centre-right politics to sort it out

20 September 2008

  • Nick Clegg speaking at Lib Dem conference 2008

    Clegg's tax policy is Old Tory, not New Lib Dem

    Lucy Powell: There seems real flux and change afoot in British politics right now - in large part brought on by the challenging and changing economic circumstances

About 111 results for The candidates
1234...