Congratulations to Councillor Sara Walton, elected today for Castle ward on Alnwick Town Council, following the resignation of the Conservative councillor through ill health. The result: LD Sara Walton 329; Con 238; Lab 94 Turnout 24.4%. LD GAIN from Con. New councillor Sara Walton said, It’s very humbling that so many people have put their

The coalition is under pressure to protect struggling companies from banks that could use the recovery to sell their assets and recoup loans after it emerged that Conservatives have quietly dropped plans for sweeping bankruptcy reform

Amid all the feverish commotion about cuts, it's easy to forget that it took the Tories until November 2008 to ditch Labour's spending plans - and, indeed, that it was barely a year ago when George Osborne first mentioned the c-word in public. Even David Cameron admits that this delay was his biggest mistake. It weakened his party's claim to foresight, and gave them less time to emb...

by Michael Meacher, from Left Futures So David Miliband would pose the greatest threat to the Tories?   How convenient for DM that this alleged private remark of David Cameron’s has hit the headlines, via an unidentified ‘well-placed source’,  just 4 days before voting starts for the Labour leadership.   It is of course the oldest trick in

AN EDUCATION union clashed with the Tories yesterday over claims money is being "splashed out" to cover teachers' time off for official duties.

THE Scottish Conservatives have come under attack for a series of donations made by a company owned by an exiled peer, more than a year after it was claimed the Monaco-based b

Reading "Red" Ed Miliband's piece in the Observer makes clear why so many Tories want him to win. His plans for Britain could have been written in the bank of a beer mat by Unite officials at 2am (and probably were). Red Ed, as I call him in today's News of the World, has already observed that "We let markets become too powerful in our society" - the obvious implicati...

Senior Conservatives in Crispin Blunt's constituency turned on the Tory prisons minister yesterday after he left his wife and declared he was homosexual.

Strange but true: the Cameroons are wary of a Labour Party led by David Miliband. The Guardian's Nick Watt has been eavesdropping and he's gathered a few choice quotes. Kool-aid drinking Tories say: "David Cameron said the candidate he hoped for was Ed Miliband, and the candidate he most feared was David Miliband."  "On the whole we would prefer if Ed Miliband won. Hi...

The Conservatives have crashed to landslide defeats in the latest council by-elections.