Posted by James Nason on 22 April 2010
After campaigning in the West Midlands marginal constituency of Telford (7% swing required for a Conservative victory) over the last few days the following themes have come to the fore:
• There are plenty of people who voted for Labour in the last election who are now reconsidering their support for the Party. A swing to [...]
Posted by James Nason on 15 January 2010
Editorial Intelligence held an interesting discussion yesterday on ‘London 2012’. The consensus view from the panel seemed to be that the infrastructure will be built on time and that the games would run smoothly. Let’s face it, Brits are pretty good at running sporting events (Wimbledon, The Open, Commonwealth Games, Rugby World Cup, etc).
The real [...]
Posted by James Nason on 23 December 2009
Over the last six months, the EU has gained a single legal personality, greater power and competencies on key issues such as justice, freedom and security, intellectual property rights, sports, space tourism, civil protection, not to forget environment and climate change.
Lobbying the EU will involve considerably more work within the European Parliament as the [...]
Posted by James Nason on 4 December 2009
I joined a few colleagues from our Local Government team to hear Bob Neill MP (Shadow Planning Minister) seek to explain the Conservatives policy on planning at a Bow Group event last night.
Whilst planning may not be every one’s cup of tea there’s a fascinating debate going on in this policy space which will [...]
Posted by James Nason on 15 October 2009
It’s now exactly a week since the Conservative conference ended. At the time, the Conference was described by David Cameron as the “most dynamic conference in the last 15 years”. Those of us who have been to the last 14 years of conferences would agree! The Party perhaps reached its nadir during Iain Duncan Smith’s [...]
Posted by James Nason on 22 September 2009
Just watched the former Spanish Prime Minister – Jose Maria Aznar – set out his EU reform agenda at a FAES-Stockholm Network event this lunchtime. Aznar’s one of my political heroes (he transformed Spain during his administration) so it was fascinating to see the guy in the flesh. He had some pretty stark messages for [...]
Posted by James Nason on 9 September 2009
It’s good to be back online! Looking forward to Warwick’s post on last night’s Comres event and Sarah’s post on tonight’s bonfire of the quangos.
In the meantime watch Warwick on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/publicaffairsnews