Final Seat by Seat General Election Predictions: The Complete List
- 27 Apr 2015
These are the links to my final election predictions, calculated at the end of April 2015. The figures in brackets denote the changes since the revised predictions in mid March. Click on the links for the seat by seat breakdown. The final tally looks like this… Conservative ...
Future Leaders Series 4: Who Will Succeed David Cameron?
- 25 Apr 2015
This is the fourth in a series looking at the runners and riders in post-election leadership contests. You can read my article about the runners and riders in a post election LibDem leadership contest HERE, UKIP HERE and Labour HERE In the event of an election defeat, it’s us...
How David Cameron Unwittingly Promoted the Rise of the SNP
- 25 Apr 2015
It could have been so very different. This general election campaign has so far been dominated by one woman. No, not Margaret Thatcher or her legacy, but another Iron Lady, the leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon. No one could have predicted it, few can explain it, but let me h...
WATCH: LBC's Election Call with Ed Miliband
- 24 Apr 2015
This is our election call, which I hosted today with Labour leader Ed Miliband. It lasts thirty minutes.
ConHome Diary: Boris Gets on 'All Fours' With Theresa May
- 24 Apr 2015
I can’t pretend that I have read every newspaper every day, but it seems to me that there is one broadsheet that has trumped its rivals every single day, and that’s The Times. Its range and depth are simply unrivalled, and what with its star team of columnists it is unmissable...
Me & Jacqui Smith: Separated at Birth
- 24 Apr 2015
I woke up at 3am this morning. I just couldn’t sleep properly for some reason. Now I know why. I switched on my phone to find a Google Alert. It linked to an article on MailOnline by Richard Littlejohn. Can’t be good, I thought. I wasn’t far wrong. I clicked on it and a pic o...
Attitude Column: Get Off Your Pert Little Arse/Big Fat Arse and Vote!
- 19 Apr 2015
If I stopped you in the street and asked you what you think of politicians, chances are you’d give me one or all of these replies: “They’re all the same”. “They’re only in it for themselves.” “They don’t represent people like me”. “What do they know about my life?” “They’re al...
Future Leaders Series 3: Who Will Succeed Ed Miliband?
- 18 Apr 2015
This is the third in a series looking at the runners and riders in post-election leadership contests. You can read my article about the runners and riders in a post election LibDem leadership contest HERE and UKIP HERE. I’ll be looking at the Conservatives before May 7th. In ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 25: Breaking the Official Secrets Act & Protecting an Interviewee
- 18 Apr 2015
Back in November I wrote about a phone-in we did on the Vishal Mehrotra case. Vishal’s dismembered body was found in 1981 and he had been a victim of terrible sexual abuse. Towards the end of the hour our collective mouths were left gaping open when we had two calls from ex-po...
The Election Week In Review With Three Wise Men & One Wise Woman
- 17 Apr 2015
Each Friday night on LBC we are convening a panel of Three Wise Men & One Wise Woman to look back on that week’s developments in the Election Campaign. They are David Davis, Sir Ming Campbell, Neil Hamilton and Margaret Beckett. You can hear tonight’s episode HERE And l...
ConHome Diary: Boris Johnson Is The Scarlet Pimpernel of This Election Campaign
- 17 Apr 2015
They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek him everybloodywhere. He is the Scarlet Pimpernel of this election campaign. For someone who is without doubt the second best known Conservative in the country, Boris Johnson has been more or less invisible in the election cam...
Winning 'Blog of the Year' at the London Press Club Awards
- 14 Apr 2015
When I got an email from the London Press Club to say that I had been shortlisted in their annual awards I got very excited. I knew Nick Ferrari had won Broadcaster of the Year last year at the same awards, so I thought, wow, that’s quite an accolade. However, I hadn’t been s...
Interview With Gorkana on Radio & the Election
- 11 Apr 2015
This is an interview I did a month ago with Gorkana. It’s only just been published on their website, so forgive the tight-lippedness about LBC’s election coverage, as I wasn’t in a position to say anything at the time this was done. In the first of our Election 2015 special i...
ConHome Diary: The Pathetic Al Murray
- 11 Apr 2015
Michael Fallon exudes ‘bottom’. Well, you know what I mean. His article in The Times yesterday filleted the SNP and its leader Nicola Sturgeon and contained a bitterly personal attack on Ed Miliband. He should be used more. He sticks the knife in without appearing to do so, wh...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 24: Hosting an Election Debate
- 10 Apr 2015
Last night’s LBC Women Leaders’ Debate debate took a lot of planning. It all started back in February when my producer Jagruti Dave sidled up to me and said ’wouldn’t it be a good idea to do a women’s debate during the general election campaign’, seeing as all the other debate...
WATCH: The LBC Women Leaders' Debate
- 9 Apr 2015
Scroll in four minutes to miss the adverts… This is what a proper debate looks like. Even the Daily Mirror agrees. They’ve just published an article headlined: “7 things we learnt from the LBC Radio all-women General Election debate”. Here are their conclusions… LBC Rad...
Future Leaders Series 2: Who Will Succeed Nigel Farage?
- 6 Apr 2015
This is the second in a series looking at the runners and riders in post-election leadership contests. You can read my article about the runners and riders in a post election LibDem leadership contest HERE. I’ll be looking at the other two parties over the next few weeks, but ...
Who Would be in A Miliband Cabinet After May 7th?
- 6 Apr 2015
Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to look at a few post-election scenarios in terms of possible cabinet line-ups and who might stand in any of the various leadership contests the election result might throw up. I’ve already covered… Who would be in a Cameron Cabinet? Wh...
Want to 'Be Your Own Politician'?
- 5 Apr 2015
During the next month of over-familiar political sound-bites and opinion-slinging some fresh perspectives from outside politics could be a refreshing antidote, especially if those perspectives come someone informed and politically active rather than yet another armchair criti...
LBC to Host Women Polical Leaders Debate on Thursday Evening
- 5 Apr 2015
Four of the most senior female politicians in Britain have signed up to a live election debate on LBC. Nicky Morgan for the Conservatives, Labour’s Harriet Harman, Lynne Featherstone representing the Liberal Democrats and UKIP’s Suzanne Evans will clash on Thursday April 9 a...