Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that he was on probation, the PMS said that the Prime Minister accepted that the Government needed to do more in order to take action and help people through these difficult economic times, more to push ahead with the reform and delivery of public services, and more in order to clean up politics. That was why we would be setting out further proposals around int...

What a pathetic little country the United Kingdom has become, the mass media has painted itself green and is wetting itself, doing all it can to help force an election recount in Iran, which if they have there way will place a man in the Iranian Presidency who when Prime Minister oversaw the mass murder of his political opponents. Whilst they are doing this they see no contradiction in the fact th...

On the one hand OurKingdom will relentlessly seek to demonstrate in newsworthy terms and prove by its analysis that the supporters of the status quo are plain wrong. Sunny's argument is definitive here. But at the same time, we want to build a different kind of political discourse to the adolescent crap that starts at Prime Minister's Question Time and inhabits British blogland.

It's a good thing that only politics nerds bother to watch prime minister's questions, because if anyone else had bothered to tune in today, they would have had their reasons for being completely cynical and apathetic about what goes on at Westminster fully confirmed. Understandably, the Conservatives sense blood after Gordon Brown's last dire week. They realise that turning him int...

So, the Tories have declared war on Charlie Whelan and Unite - what Eric Pickles calls the "great untold story of British politics". He was joined by no less than two more shadow frontbenchers - Michael Gove and Theresa Villiers - at a briefing attacking the union's political influence this morning. And that's not all: the Tories have produced a document detailing how Unite is ...

On the next leg of his masochism tour Gordon Brown, Labour Leader and unfortunately still prime minister of the United Kingdom, received what he deserves and seems to be seeking, this time from Poland's Prime Minister Tusk. Brown, in his now standard body-language shouting down of any other speaker, pretended not to understand despite a first rate real time translation, as the prime minister of Po...

The Prime Minister has cleverly rearranged the political choreography, but he is too desperate for quick hits. He must watch his step One of the few iron laws in modern politics is that a prime minister must give some mean- ing to the shapeless torrent of events. The narrative can be tendentious or simplistic, as long as it strikes a chord. Margaret Thatcher was a supreme storyteller. So was Tony ...

I got my ballot paper for the Unite/Amicus General Secretary election yesterday and have voted for Kevin Coyne. I have never been a supporter of Derek Simpson but I suppose in a way he has been better than the extremely low expectations I had of him. Certainly on the political side of things it has been difficult for someone with my politics to criticise someone whose relationship with Government ...

Asked for the Prime Minister s response to the demand from the First Minister that Scotland should get an extra 1 billion to get through the economic downturn, the PMS said that what we had seen in the last week was considerable support for Scottish banks which, as the Prime Minister had said, was only possible because we were a United Kingdom. We needed to support Scotland through this downturn, ...

“The Prime Minister is very focused on what we need to do to recapture people's enthusiasm. The Prime Minister, when he comes back from his holidays, will set out very clearly what he intends to do.” Alistair Darling, offering hope to the United Kingdom. After all, he couldn't be intending to propose any more years of Gordon Brown and his regime, could he? The idea of 'over the next 20 months ...