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Viewers turned off by soft-soap Cameron

By Labour Matters ⋅ March 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

David Cameron’s super-soft interview with ITV’s Sir Trevor McDonald flopped last night after it was revealed that the programme was watched by fewer than HALF those who tuned in to Piers Morgan’s chat with Gordon Brown last month.
The Prime Minister’s prime time talk was viewed by more than 4 million, despite being criticised by [...]

Labour releases powerful film on Conservative crime choices

By Labour Matters ⋅ March 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Labour today renewed its call for voters to look again at Conservative policy, releasing a powerful critique of their crime choices.
The professionally produced film controversially spends much of its 2 minute and twenty seconds focused on a man AGREEING with Tory crime policy. But Labour’s not going soft on Cameron, far from it, this [...]

David Cameron’s claim to have changed the Tories is exposed as hot air

By Labour Matters ⋅ March 7, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

David Cameron’s attempt to portray the Conservatives as moderates has rightly taken a battering in the last week.
The row over Lord Ashcroft’s failure to live up to his promise to pay full UK tax finally exploded, leaving egg all over the Tory frontbench and galvanising the will to fightback with Labour supporters in the [...]

Banned councillor still supported by London Mayor despite police probe

By Labour Matters ⋅ March 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Evening Standard yesterday reported that: “Boris Johnson’s administration was today at the centre of new sleaze allegations after a top fire authority chief spent £900 in donations on two ball gowns while serving as Mayor of Brent.”
Over many weeks Boris Johnson has repeatedly failed to act over Bertha Joseph – who he has [...]

Cameron’s Conservatives drop NHS as “our top priority” as poll gap shrinks

By Labour Matters ⋅ February 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

As their poll lead crumbles – and the latest poll shows Labour just 2 points behind – Cameron’s Conservatives seem to have decided to downgrade claims to back the NHS.
A couple of weeks ago the Conservatives released a leaflet explaining what their top priorities were, declaring that the NHS is “our top priority”.
More [...]

Boris’s broken promise “a huge blow to the Tories’ plans for elected police commissioners”

By London Assembly Labour ⋅ February 23, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Today is the London Assembly confirmation hearing for Kit Malthouse as chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority. Labour will be pressing its concerns over the direction of policing.
Former policing minister Tony McNulty MP told Labour Matters:
“Boris Johnson’s appointment of Kit Malthouse is both a broken promise on his key pledge to take this [...]

Tories left red faced as poll shows Labour just 6% adrift

By Labour Matters ⋅ February 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Conservatives today are licking their wounds after they crowed about a YouGov poll for The Sun which they said showed the Tories had increased their lead to 12%, when in reality the poll showed that the Tories have slumped to their lowest support for more than a year.
The ConservativeHome blog reported the poll’s supposed [...]

Tory links cast doubt on National Bullying Helpline claims

By Labour Matters ⋅ February 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Both the BBC and the National Bullying Helpline, run by Christine Pratt, have been criticised over claims that staff at Number 10 used the service to alledge that they were being bullied.
The BBC hastily broadcast an interview with Mrs Pratt yesterday in which she made the allegations, apparently breaching confidences in the process, but [...]

Leaked Conservative document reveals façade of changed attitudes

By Labour Matters ⋅ February 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Daily Mail reports on the contents of a leaked Conservative document which shows that Conservative HQ is “tricking” local Associations into selecting women and ethnic minority candidates, while falsely claiming that any success is the result of changed Party attitudes. Quoting the Conservative document ‘Action Plan for Candidate Selection in Safe Seats’:
“The party [...]

Secret Conservative ‘demo on expenses’ falls flat

By Labour Matters ⋅ February 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A demonstration secretly organised by the Conservative Party to disrupt the Prime Minister’s speech today, exposed by Paul Waugh on Friday, failed to attract enough Tories to fill a coach.
As this snap from Owain Gardner via Twitter shows, the handful of ‘Conservative Future’ protesters – despite being offered “reasonable expenses” by the Tories – [...]

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