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Sketch: A wink ... and Sarah's a winner

03.10.08

Sarah Palin started with the greatest asset in a debate - the gift of low expectations after a week of premier cru gaffes and fluffs. Onto the...
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Commentary: Love him or loathe him, he's a class political act

03.10.08

He's back - third time lucky. The extraordinary career of Peter Mandelson took an unexpected turn today as the man who first played a critical role...
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Commentary: Bank manager Dave stages a modest drama

01.10.08

Gosh, it must be really serious this banking crisis stuff. Bad enough to persuade our very own Aboriginal walkabout exponent that he had best address...
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Tories change their tune in this scary new world

01.10.08

David Cameron will today begin to unveil his plan for government – but the banking crisis has set unpredictable new tests for him

Sketch: Grown-up George takes on a man's work

29.09.08

Make way for George - the boy wonder faced with a man's work as shadow chancellor, digging his way through the rubble of the financial crisis....
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Don't drift to the Left: a warning from Ruth Kelly

26.09.08

Ruth Kelly, the Cabinet minister who this week announced her resignation, has issued a stark warning to New Labour of a fatal "drift to the Left"

Gordon stole the show but is now upstaged by Ruth

24.09.08

The PM’s speech staved off calls for his removal but Ruth Kelly’s departure is a reminder of a deeper malaise

Sketch: Quiet woman rains on PM's parade

24.09.08

A lesson in life for Gordon Brown: beware quiet women

Brown's biggest asset Sarah goes into battle

22.09.08

Whatever the fate of the Brown government, one figure in his camp can hardly be faulted for grit in times of trouble: Sarah Brown

Sketch: He'd bring Liberal grit to a Cameron government

17.09.08

Well he can walk the walk. Never mind tax cuts and public service reform pledges, Nick Clegg established himself in the mainstream of podium politics...
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The ‘Get Gordon’ plot

17.09.08

The PM’s would-be assassins have failed, so far, to remove him from office, but it has irrevocably tilted the mood around his leadership

Commentary: PM's weak spot is the growing fear that he is a personal liability

15.09.08

The whirlwind mini-coup against the Prime Minister is unlikely to inflict immediate mortal damage on him: its timing, the limited seniority of those...
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Straw: Labour must reconnect with Middle Britain

12.09.08

One of the Cabinet's most senior figures has launched a battle for "middle Britain" - saying New Labour needs to reconnect with voters

The Tories’ golden duo on the right road

10.09.08

The Cameron-Osborne combination is a proven success – but it must ensure that it does not presume too much

There's more wrong with New Labour than it thinks

03.09.08

The PM's long-awaited economic relief package cannot disguise the party's difficulties and divisions - which can be summed up in 10 key points

Don't stretch your credibility, Mr Obama

29.08.08

Mr Obama came to deliver a Big Vision and he did not disappoint, sealing his nomination with a confident prediction of rebirth for American Democrats

The windfall tax - it's a Baldrick of an idea

27.08.08

Labour's Baldricks have a cunning plan. The Government must levy a "sensible one-off tax" on the windfall profits of the energy and oil companies,...
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Suddenly, I've found the funky vision thing

21.08.08

Unlike J Alfred Prufrock I have measured out my life not in coffee spoons, but in spectacles

What not to do - if you really want to win

20.08.08

So it's Trinny and Susannah R.I.P. they no longer enchant when it comes to correcting the nation's trouser-buying techniques and ensuring maximum...
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More pupils going to university is a good thing, says senior Tory

15.08.08

Shadow schools minister Michael Gove has revealed the Conservatives will not depart from Labour's commitment to encourage as many school-leavers as...
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Rebuilding confidence

It says a good deal for the febrile atmosphere that the growing pressure from business is on the Bank of England to arrive at a decision tomorrow rather than wait for Thursday

That awful man Witchell breaks his long silence

Everyone can remember it. Prince Charles, during a reluctant photocall at Klosters in 2005, turned to his two sons and, referring to the BBC's Nicholas Witchell, muttered under his breath: "Bloody people. I can't bear that man. I mean, he's so awful, he really is." Now Witchell himself has broken his silence and responded to this stinging criticism

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