Technology and comment
Never one to miss an opportunity, Labour peer John Prescott has decided to use his twitter feed to crack jokes about the Lord Rennard scandal. #CallClegg on @lbc973. He’ll answer all your non-specific calls, forget the conversations & then blame Danny...
ConservativeHome founder and editor Tim Montgomerie is leaving the site to become the Comment Editor of The Times. Tim Montgomerie moving to become Comment Editor of The Times (but he’ll still be writing for ConservativeHome) bit.ly/YzNJQB — ConservativeHome...
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It seems in the wake of his sex scandal, and his voluntary giving up of the, Lord Rennard is no longer named as a Lib Dem peer on the party’s official website:
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The alleged Wikileaks leaker, Private First Class Bradley Manning, has failed in his attempts get his case dismissed. It is emerging that a judge has deemed the delays to Manning’s case understandable, and that he will face trial on June 3rd.
Cathy Newman, who ran Channel 4′s investigation into Lord Rennard, has explained that the story was ready to go before Chris Huhne food down and triggered the by-election. She has blogged that when she interviewed one of the women making the allegations...
Over on politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt has written a hilarious account of his trip to Eastleigh. “It makes for a messy, baffling scene, like Glastonbury for hideous politics people. Spotty teenagers hand out leaflets for the Tories inbetween cigarettes,...
In the wake of sexual harassment claims it’s beginning to be noticed that the Lib Dems aren’t putting up many women. It seems odd that women wouldn’t want to go in and explain the issues, and show the Lib Dems are responding to concerns of women: Jenny...
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Sexual harassment allegations around former Chief Executive Lord Chris Rennard has made this another miserable week for the Liberal Democrats. It’s fair to say that few in the Westminster bubble were hugely surprised when the allegations against Chris...
The Sunday morning papers make grim reading for the Lib Dems…and George Osborne.
