Speaking at Nottingham University on Friday, as part of a gathering of academics to discuss "Cameron's Conservatives", Ken Clarke warned that the level of debt awaiting the next government would be a "nightmare" compared to the borrowing he had to...

The Telegraph are hinting that David Cameron may be ready to bring Ken Clarke back to the Tory front bench. I've said elsewhere that I would not renew my party membership if this happens. Also, blogging can be hard work when you are in full time employment and Ken Clarke on the front bench would give me another reason to pack it all in. Why do I dislike Clarke so much? The answer is simple - ...

Ken Clarke, the new Lord Chancellor, has chosen not to make use of the opulent Westminster apartments that come with the post.

Well, well - he’s certainly started with a work rate that puts some Conservative Shadow Cabinet members to shame … for it’s another day, and another attack from Ken Clarke on the policies that David Cameron and George Osborne have been pushing. Following up his earlier comments about the IMF, this time Ken Clarke has

Ken Clarke was summoned to Downing Street yesterday, the BBC reports. He spoke to David Cameron for half an hour, after which the controversial sentencing review was dropped: there will not be a per cent fifty discount in plea bargaining and Clarke will have to find £130m of savings from elsewhere in his department. Clarke has paid for last month’s rape victim fiasco. The government is ...

Not me, I must confess? In fact, I would suggest that having Ken Clarke back on the Conservative frontbench is probably good for us. The justification is that the Conservatives need someone with experience to take on Peter Mandelson. Hang on a minute, the noble Lord is... in the Lords, the one place where our suede shoe wearing, jazz loving Europhile can't go. And yes, he'll be up against him on

There is something about a Ken Clarke soundbite that so often just works. Unlike so many senior politicians he's straightforward in his manner of speaking; he doesn't overstate his case or speak in a Westminster village code. He just takes the hammer, sizes up the nail and hits it on the head. Words have landed from him on the hash the government is making of its various loan guarantee s...

MPs will no longer be allowed to claim legal aid in criminal cases, Ken Clarke said.

The Government's "lack of candour" over how it will tackle a hole in public finances caused by the recession is threatening further damage to the economy Ken Clarke has said.

Ken Clarke was back on the frontbench. The bull was out of the barn and back in the china shop. He was roaring, stamping, charging and plopping down steaming lumps of ordure wherever he felt like it. I haven't seen the Tories so happy since Gordon Brown claimed to have saved the world. The contrast with the House of Lords could not have been greater. There, at 3.05pm, Lord Mandelson rose sinu...