Welcome to WMN London Editor Matt Chorley's blog.

I owe John Prescott an apology

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Oh dear. By quoting the former deputy prime minister directly, I appear to have upset him.
This morning John Prescott posted a blog and tweet about his...

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Lib-Dems select porn director

Thursday, March 11, 2010

I publish this tale from PA without comment, only noting that today the Commons has been debating the role of women in society...An award-winning...

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Prescott battle bus misses Westcountry

Thursday, March 11, 2010

John Prescott is touring the country in what he describes as a Battle Bus but in fact is more like a Transit van with some Labour stickers on the...

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Huge MP and other errors

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Getting one politician’s name wrong in a press release is possibly forgivable. Two looks sloppy. Three is really bad. Claiming an MEP is an MP...

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MyConservatives.com raises 1% of West target

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

It's the website which was supposed to mirror Barack Obama’s fundraising success to bolster Tory campaign funds.David Cameron said he...

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Millionaire Ashcroft v Mrs Younger-Ross

Monday, March 08, 2010

It is just possible when Sue Younger-Ross sat down and wrote out two cheques for a total of £6,000 she had hoped it might have been spent...

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High above the corridors of power

Thursday, March 04, 2010

For months now we have been plagued in our Commons office by hammering in the roof above. Our view of Parliament Square obscured by a web of...

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Ministry of Silly Ideas

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

CIVIL servants are pulling their hair out at the increasingly absurd way ministers are desperately trying to raise their profile without committing to...

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Hague: Dave doesn't swear and I won't be DPM

Monday, March 01, 2010

Amid all the speculation about opinion polls and Cameron’s “biggest speech of his life”, there were a couple of extra nuggets from...

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SKETCH: Cameron steadies the horses but leaves questions

Monday, March 01, 2010

The Brighton conference centre last night played host to the X Factor. A hundred yards up the road, at the Hilton Metropole, David Cameron was in need...

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