What a week for politics

A new Labour leader and deputy; a new prime minister; the old prime minister standing down as an MP; a Tory defection; tomorrow, a new Cabinet? Truly, one doesn’t want to get too far from a computer at the moment.

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  1. Tim F | 27 June 2007 8:04 am

    Another by-election is hardly good news for the party’s finances; at least it’s not a marginal, I suppose.

  2. James | 27 June 2007 11:56 am

    Quentin Davies is pro hunting, Tory squire who is against gay rights.
    I am not very happy about the part welcoming this man.

  3. Antonia | 27 June 2007 3:21 pm

    For sure, James. But doesn’t it say something that the party receiving defections is the one which has been in power for a decade?

  4. Antonia | 27 June 2007 3:22 pm

    Tim - they need you to go and run one of them, clearly.

  5. James | 27 June 2007 6:58 pm

    I think what it tells us is that Labour has ceased to be Labour.

  6. Antonia | 27 June 2007 9:10 pm

    Just like it stopped being the Labour party when Alan Howarth defected in 95; Peter Temple-Morris in 98; Shaun Woodward in 99; Robert thing from Wantage in 2005.

  7. Manfarang | 28 June 2007 4:04 am

    You forgot to mention Sir Oswald Mosley.

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