Senior figures in Government and the Labour Party are still pressing Gordon Brown to hold an election in the summer next year. They are adamant that the economy is going to get worse not better in 2009.

A new party political broadcast by the Labour Party will be shown for the first time this evening following today's Queen's Speech. Labour has also released web-only footage of the Prime Minister talking about Labour's plans to help families and businesses through these tough times. "Standing Up For Britain" will highlight how Labour will go on taking urgent action to give people re...

I bumped into a familiar face at the Irish Embassy's traditional Christmas bash last night - David Abrahams, the businessman at the centre of the row last year when it was discovered that he'd given around £600,000 to the Labour Party through anonymous donors, thereby getting round the law on openness when it comes to donations to political parties. Having spotted Mr Abrahams in th...

Iain Dale is standing firmly behind Alex Hilton, "boss" of LabourHome and Recess Monkey. While I think (from Alex's description, of course!) that the Tory in question is being a twat, I have to wonder why the Labour party isn't funding this, given that this is the Labour Party's site we are talking about. Nah fuck it, the cunts have had their hands in my pockets for far too long. Call your paymast...

Welsh Labour has today announced that Brent Carter, a Lib Dem Councillor on Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, has joined the Labour Party. The defection comes two days after national press reports quoted Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg describing his most senior party colleagues as "useless", and a week before the Lib Dems' in Wales announce their new leader. With the defection of Councillor B...

It’s not often I link directly to the Labour Party web site but the announcement today on fair rules for strong communities will be important next year.

Govt. announce plans to arrest Opposition Following the widespread practise of leaking news, gossip, titbits, emails, and the odd document to Her Majesty’s Opposition the government has formulated a policy to plug the leaks and steady the Labour Party ship. Speaking from behind police lines and a heavy cordon of two officers (who wish to become the

Above we have the Labour Party's Favourite Tory Blogger LPFTB Iain Dale leading a horse to water but he cannot make him drink. The horse, formerly known as Eclipse is now named "Chris Grayling", though he's no gray - he's a liver chestnut or sorrel as it goes. Iain is it seems grooming him for the Chair of the Tory Party with Dave Cameron (far right) about to put him through his pac...

I attended my first meeting of the Labour Party's London Regional Board last night. Most of it I won't be blogging about (there's a limited audience for online reports of the rules revision process for the GLLP Biennial Conference) but there was an interesting London Assembly Labour Group report by John Biggs AM. It seems Boris is making some rather petty cuts. Two examples: He has cut the budget ...

Unnoticed in these parts, the Party of European Socialists, to which our own dear Labour party subscribes, has just published its manifesto, or 'manifiesto', as they are calling it in Madrid. The gestation period, rather amusingly, was nine months. As Martin Schulz, head of the PES put it, "It is a question of creating a common front to resist neoliberalism and to again give hope to citi...