http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-8158-neil-kinnock/topic-rss.do Neil Kinnock RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23772132-briton-lands-top-eu-job-but-its-not-tony-blair.do <b>Video:</b> European leaders were right to reject Tony Blair’s 'flamboyance' for little-known Belgian, former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said 2009-11-20T07:32:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23770782-great-gather-for-a-voyage-round-sir-john-mortimer.do <b>Video: </b>It was evident from those who packed Southwark Cathedral for a celebration of the life of Sir John Mortimer that the playwright, barrister and creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, was very much loved by all 2009-11-17T14:03:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23768480-the-tang-of-vengeance-is-in-the-air-now-this-love-affair-has-ended.do New Labour and the Murdoch empire is a love affair that has now come to an abrupt and bitter end. All that is left is revenge, recrimination and the question: "Why did you leave me this way?" 2009-11-12T09:37:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23750631-pm-may-use-scaremonger-tactics-to-fight-cameron.do Thousands of teachers, transport and council workers would be put in fear of losing their jobs under election tactics which Labour may deploy against the Tories 2009-09-30T08:37:44Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23750607-gordon-brown-turns-on-media-in-tv-meltdown.do Angry Gordon Brown loses his cool on live TV and walks off interview while still connected to a microphone as PM's fightback falters 2009-09-30T08:14:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23750381-massive-blow-to-gordon-brown-as-sun-turns-tory-minutes-after-his-speech.do <b>NEW:</b> Gordon Brown's fightback with a policy-rich rallying conference speech hits buffers as The Sun declares its support for David Cameron 2009-09-30T05:43:13Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23750317-brown-appears-in-the-grip-of-an-odd-euphoria.do "Lighten up", Peter Mandelson instructed Gloomy Gordon, and Sarah Brown, as usual, got the message before her husband. She was sporting a lustrous honey-tinted hair colour and had forsaken those forbidding beige and red numbers for a vibrant splash of a floral dress. 2009-09-29T15:25:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23750002-mps-may-boycott-marr-over-pills-interview-with-pm.do BBC licence fee in danger if the corporation continues to allow 'intrusive' journalism similar to Andrew Marr’s questions to Gordon Brown, Cabinet minister warns 2009-09-29T08:22:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23749643-kinnock-bbc-slurs-on-pms-health-are-abominable.do BBC interviewer Andrew Marr refused to apologise for asking the Prime Minister if he was on anti-depressants 2009-09-28T13:32:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/travel/article-23747965-power-and-the-glory-of-the-grand-hotel.do Brighton’s landmark hotel has seen it all, from the IRA bomb to Tony Blair’s reaction to 9/11. Next week’s conference gatherers will find it has lost none of its grandeur 2009-09-23T15:30:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23730559-mandys-mates-the-peter-mandelson-diaspora.do The country rests safe in the neatly manicured hands of Peter Mandelson: Gordon Brown's best frenemy and the man who exercises such a magnetic pull for protesters that an eco-suffragette promptly chained herself to his Regent's Park railings as he returned home to mind No 10's business for the week 2009-08-11T10:42:03Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23716259-history-tells-us-were-about-to-be-left-hanging-around.do Historians of modern politics are wearing out the corduroy on their elbows pondering whether we are on the verge of 1979, 1992 or 1997 2009-07-07T07:22:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23706974-clan-kinnock-and-their-euro-jackpot.do After losing two general elections, the Kinnocks moved to Europe and prospered. Now they’re back — but will they save or sink Labour? 2009-06-12T09:10:49Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23705787-the-rise-again-of-peter-mandelson---gordon-browns-best-frenemy.do One man holds the Prime Minister’s fate in his hands — but was saving him the right thing to do? 2009-06-10T07:48:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23705323-magic-moments-as-the-brown-cheerleaders-stave-off-rebellion.do A combination of humility, old-fashioned party management and sheer weight of numbers helped Gordon Brown survive the crunch meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party 2009-06-09T08:48:11Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23705043-sir-alan-sugars-peerage-may-be-stopped-by-watchdog.do Sir Alan Sugar's promised peerage could be blocked by anti-sleaze watchdogs, it has emerged 2009-06-08T13:26:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23661251-scargill-is-right---for-25-years-labour-has-failed-to-appreciate-king-coal.do It was always going to be Arthur Scargill who would reopen the deep wounds that have scarred the Labour movement... 2009-03-12T11:38:03Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23648112-keeping-up-with-the-joneses.do The Welsh are back in the limelight, to the delight of one London Welshman, as their stars shine in music, TV and sport 2009-02-20T09:10:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23591390-osborne-santa-giveaway-paid-for-by-taxes-for-life.do Britain's national debt will soar to one trillion pounds, leaving millions of people facing tax rises lasting a lifetime, shadow chancellor George Osborne claimed 2008-11-24T10:00:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23572490-im-a-diehard-leftie-but-my-son-is-going-to-private-school.do If England, according to Oscar Wilde, is the native land of the hypocrite, then the contortions achieved by former Left-wing supporters of state education in order to justify sending their kids to private schools have to be some of that land's most curious rituals. When I was a child in London my parents schooled me privately to begin with, and then when the inherited dosh ran out sent me to a state school. It was at that point that my mother began to trumpet her great belief in comprehensives. Even aged 13, I couldn't help seeing hypocrisy in this. 2008-10-14T08:11:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23563241-sketch-a-wink-and-sarahs-a-winner.do 2008-10-03T08:34:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23559019-we-will-lose-the-centre-if-we-dont-get-rid-of-gordon.do Labour will lurch to the Left in opposition unless ministers act to remove Gordon Brown before the next general election, a Cabinet ally of David Miliband has warned 2008-09-23T09:39:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23554572-straw-labour-must-reconnect-with-middle-britain.do One of the Cabinet's most senior figures has launched a battle for "middle Britain" - saying New Labour needs to reconnect with voters 2008-09-12T08:10:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23529883-what-happened-when-i-asked-to-do-adult-tv-konnie-huq-on-the-perils-of-leaving-blue-peter.do In a candid interview, presenter Konnie Huq spills secrets about life after Blue Peter... which included flirting with Tony Blair and being asked to do 'adult TV'. 2008-08-07T21:02:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23521821-rushdie-was-tight-fisted-and-arrogant-with-a-handshake-like-a-wet-fish-says-special-branch-officer-who-knew-him-as-scruffy.do In a new book ex-Special Branch detective RON EVANS tells of his toughest job - protecting Salman Rushdie and the girl he was desperate to get into bed. 2008-07-26T16:17:51Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23497881-there-is-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-gordon.do On the eve of the PM's first anniversary, one economic expert says Mr Brown has one last chance of fighting back 2008-06-23T08:38:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/article-23485294-battle-of-the-unlikely-lads-is-fa-cup-final-to-savour.do I hope and expect that Portsmouth will prevail by a single goal in what promises to be a cagey, disjointed, ugly, massively tense and riveting game 2008-05-16T11:31:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23444246-everyone-likes-ken---until-they-know-him.do Neil Kinnock's famously damning view of the Mayor holds true: take a closer look and you find he is not the great hope for social justice he purports to be 2008-02-28T09:03:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23387151-harry-is-wizard-of-west-end.do Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe today admitted his West End debut - in which he appeared nude in front of a packed first night audience - was a terrifying experience. 2007-02-28T09:52:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-23366750-dining-dens-where-the-plot-thickens.do Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals. 2006-09-13T13:19:23Z