You can't taste victory until it's served to you.

In the New Statesman yesterday it was reported that the Labour whips had been instructing Labour MPs to vote for Margeret Beckett. In fact, Beckett herself had rung a few MPs herself. One of these told her he would not wish to vote for her. Beckett’s reply was simply: “Well, I’ve won this.” Mrs Beckett [...]

What the papers/blogs say: Speaker Election

Great defender of the people, The Daily Telegraph: “Enter Speaker Bercow, the ultimate red Tory. So rapidly has he moved from Left to Right that he may soon be whistling the Internationale while laying flowers on Karl Marx’s grave. John Bercow has led a lacklustre field in calling for an upheaval of parliamentary procedure. He [...]