Yesterday Labour MP Denis MacShane sent an email to various hacks attacking Conservative MP William Hague and accused him of "laying down a smokescreen" over Tory allies in Europe. He followed up with ten questions for William Hague and the Conservative Party over Europe. Having seen a copy of the email, we publish it here in full.

Is cycling a left-wing or right-wing activity? Tory MP Ed Vaizey: Some people like to pretend its a left-wing pastime because they conjure up these images of miners cycling to work. But actually it's both a Conservative and a right-wing pastime, if I can draw that distinction. Remember John Major's famous speech about ‘old maids cycling to church'? And

When I saw that Martin Salter had denied existence of a "Please go Gordon" email circulating amongst Labour backbenchers, I suspected that was a sure sign that such an email existed. - Such is the reliability of the great Mr Salter. And now my suspicions are confirmed as Nick Robinson has been sent a copy of the email: The BBC's Nick Robinson has obtained a copy of the email being circulated among...

Why is Andrew MacKay still a member of the Parliamentary Conservative Party? In the wake of the right-wing media criticism of Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown for a lack of leadership over the Parliamentary Allowances scandal, what does this tell us following the suspension of Elliot Morley ex-Labour MP for Scunthorpe from the Parliamentary Labour Party?

In its lunchtime email, LabourList asks whether Labour should now adopt the Tory idea of open primaries to select candidates.  To be honest, I can't see them doing anything but.  Not only is the Tory primary getting good coverage in today's press - and rightly so - as a decent reforming measure.  But, for the time being, it's also one of the best potential get-out-of-...

Rather bizarrely, that looks to be the view of the Conservative Party’s Press Office. At the tail end of July, their attitude towards bloggers caught some attention following the refusal of a Conservative press officer to even email an already published letter to a Conservative blogger. PR Week this week reports that the Conservatives have now

Left-wingers have been infuriated for ages now about the apparent dominance of right-wing blogs. Nowhere is this clearer than in the way in which the independent (of the party), but Conservative site Conservative Home often leads news items and now acts as a standard reference point for Conservatives and others. Where the traditional Tory news source used to be the "Daily Telegraph", it is now inc...

If you have a copy of the Nomination Papers for Labour Party Leader and Deputy Leader please eMail me at:peter dot g dot kenyon at btinternet dot com

Since mid-January, I have received a number of separate emails from the following address: Labour Party New Media Team info [at] email-new.labour.org.uk Initially, I thought nothing of it; I'd subscribed to email updates from the Labour Party a long time...

In a speech today Labour's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, welcomed two former Conservative Party activists to the Labour Party and said the project to change the Conservative Party had failed. David Miliband said: "The Tory head and the Tory heart are at odds. The head tells them that the world has changed, that they have been rejected at three elections because they were seen as the nast...