Guido publishes Liam Byrne's operational notes for an off again, on again press briefing. Without going into the arrangements, I was intrigued by this: Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, sets out the choice facing voters between...

Put that Tessa Jowell had said that we would not have bid for the Olympics had we known the current economic conditions, the PMS said that Tessa Jowell had been speaking this afternoon to reiterate that what she had meant was that the economic context had changed and hypothetically, were we to be considering bidding for the Olympics today rather than in 2005, different considerations might have co...

Liam Byrne has caught the Brown bug - not for raging in his underpants you understand, but for fiscal conceits. Tony Wright, the Treasury Select Committee Chairman, called Liam Byrne (and the opposition as well) to task for misleading the public on the dire effects of cuts. Wright may be proved right: frontline services could well be decimated by the cessation of funding. But he missed Byrne’...

Given that Mr Tessa Jowell is in prison for bribery it comes as something mildly amusing this morning that Tessa Jowell herself is facing accusations of bribery in the ongoing debacle of the Labour Party selection protest in Erith and Thamesmead (see here for details). Of course, for those that don't that area of London, it is a weird constituency because it sits half in the London Borough of Bexl...

Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, speaking the Labour Party Conference today, said: You know, I thought our new leader – Ed Miliband – got the tone pitch perfect on Saturday. For us, this conference is our chance to reflect with humility and pride. On our record and what we do next to win. Nowhere is that more true than on the economy. And on no other...

Labour must promise voters more power to improve schools and hospitals and take tougher action against the "robber barons" of big business to win the next election, Liam Byrne, the party's policy strategist, says.

Could Liam Byrne be the next leader of the Labour Party? Alright, yes I know. But pipe down and let me elaborate. When Andy Burnham's name started to be circulated as a leadership contender, many thought it was risible. I...

Away from the resurrection of David Miliband, Labour modernisers convened at the Progress rally earlier this evening. These weren’t just any old modernisers; they were party grandees: Douglas Alexander, Tessa Jowell, Caroline Flint, Liam Byrne and Jacqui Smith to name a few. They were discussing the Purple Book, the latest contribution to the debate about Labour’s future. The central t...

Just spotted on the Telegraph website, Tessa Jowell's estranged husband David Jowell has been given a 4 and a half year year prison sentence. I have reproduced a couple of sections from the report below. British lawyer David Mills, the estranged husband of Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail in Italy after being convicted of corruption. He was a...

Tessa Jowell tells deputy political editor Melissa Kite that Labour, with Gordon Brown, can win the next election.