May/10
18:46 11
Andy Burnham pulls biggest crowd for campaign launch
From the looks of things at least one stand at Leigh Sports Village is pretty full for Burnham’s home-turf launch.
They’re spinning 500 people.
May/10
14:58 4
David Miliband to launch new leadership website this afternoon
David Miliband has pulled his temporary campaign site (image) in preparation for the official unveiling of davidmiliband.net this afternoon. Labour blogger Tom Harris will chair the launch with the older Milibrother giving a short speech and Q&A (cue briefings to PR Week that this will be the ellusive “internet election”).
As for the site design, perhaps he will follow the lead of Andy Burnham, winning over the ladies of the Labour movement with an 80s-crooner/teen idol cheesy grin?
Or maybe he will resurect the spirit of Labour’s mid-90s iconoclasm with a website that, erm, looks like it’s from 1994? Over to John McDonnell, whose john4leader.org.uk website was last updated 12 weeks ago when Gordon Brown was still Prime Minister:
We’ll have to wait and see.
Feb/10
13:32 26
Sky reveals top-10 hottest MPs in ‘poll of polls’
It must be Friday: Sky have published their top-10 “hottest MPs” based on polling from the previous four years (alas without pictures). Burnham and Flint fly the flag for Labour but the eleven finalists (including tied placed) include six Tories and three Lib Dems.
A former council leader’s description of John Prescott as “divinely sexy” impressed upon Scrapbook that politico crushes are a most subjective matter indeed. Has your favourite MP been missed off or otherwise underappreciated? Whose appearance in a Westminster Hall debate would leave you glued to BBC Parliament way past your bedtime?
Reveal your guilty secrets in the comments!
=10: Justine Greening (Con)
=10: Ed Vaizey (Con)
9: Theresa May (Con)
=7: Andy Burnham (Lab)
=7: Jeremy Hunt (Con)
6: Nick Clegg (LD)
5: Julia Goldsworthy (LD)
4: Adam Afriyie (Con)
3: Julie Kirkbride (Con)
2: Caroline Flint (Lab)
1: Lynne Featherstone (LD)
Sep/09
15:50 3
Daniel Hannan given plum European role by Cameron
After attacks on the NHS and other gaffes which saw CCHQ scrambling to defend their de-toxified brand the Tories have now promoted Daniel Hannan to their European front bench as spokesman for legal affairs. Andy Burnham is leading the charge:
“Will the real David Cameron please stand up?”
He goes on:
David Cameron is happy to deride Tory MEP Daniel Hannan in front of the cameras and claim that his views are not the true face of the Tory Party. But privately Cameron rewards Hannan for his attacks on the NHS with a plum job on his frontbench in the European Parliament.
This presumably puts an end to his little holidays pandering to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the American right wing media.
Have the Cameroons moved to gag Hannan with a new job?
