Rivals jostle to be shadow chancellor September 26, 2010 ED Miliband was last night desperately trying to get his older brother to become shadow chancellor, although he has not yet sealed the deal. An aide to David Miliband, who was narrowly beaten in the battle to become Labour leader by his younger sibling, said he hadn’t decided whether to put his name forward for [...]
Key London central seats go to Labour… May 7, 2010 A STRING of failures in crucial central London target seats left the Conservative party reeling as the election results came in earlier today. Disappointing results in a trio of David Cameron’s most coveted target seats – Westminster North, Hammersmith and Tooting – knocked the party off course early on in its quest for an overall [...]
Labour’s Khan holds Tooting to chants of “Yes we Khan” May 6, 2010 LABOUR HOLD Swing -3.6% TRANSPORT minister Sadiq Khan last night managed to hold onto his key marginal seat of Tooting in South London dealing a significant blow to Conservative hopes of an overall majority. The junior minister had been earmarked as a potential scalp by the Tories. But in the bellwether seat Khan survived a [...]
Eurostar launches probe as limited services resume today December 21, 2009 EUROSTAR yesterday launched an independent investigation into the problems which forced it to cancel all train services for three days in a row. The review will be led by Christopher Garnett, former chief executive of GNER and the former commercial director of Eurotunnel, and Claude Gressier, the French inspector general of bridges and roads. Eurostar [...]