Boris Johnson, London’s new Conservative mayor, yesterday handed his New York counterpart Michael Bloomberg a
novelty shirt of the London Underground, as the pair met to discuss the challenges of running a world-class city.
Analysis: At Westminster they couldn’t remember an occasion like it – a sitting of the Commons having to be suspended because a minister had failed to arrive in the chamber.
Holyrood sketch: Of all the gin joints in all the subordinate legislative assemblies in all the world, she had to walk into his. But you know what they say: sooner or later, everybody comes to Eck’s.
Jack Straw led the tributes yesterday as MPs across the party divide paid their respects at the funeral of long-serving parliamentarian Gwyneth Dunwoody.
In January last year, in the run-up to the Holyrood election, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair laid down a clear marker on Labour's views of a Scottish referendum.
David Cameron today accused Gordon Brown of losing control of the Scottish Labour Party after its leader, Wendy Alexander, broke with previous policy to call for a referendum on Scottish independence.
Sketch: Wendy, Wendy, Wendy. Just when his Britannic Majesty is floundering in political quicksand, Labour’s leaderene from north of the Border decides this is the time to plonk a dead albatross around his neck. With friends like these...
In defiance of medical advice and scientific opinion, the government is to press ahead with the reclassification of cannabis as a class B drug, possession of which will carry a maximum five-year prison sentence.
Tributes were paid last night from across the political spectrum to Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, the former Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll and Bute who has died.
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