The last Labour government did "all it could" to help release the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to secure a BP oil deal and strengthen its political ties with Libya, an official review has found. The study of hundreds of confidential government papers by the Cabinet Office concluded that there was an "underlying desire" by the UK government to see Abdelbaset al-Megrahi released early f
At last 20 January has arrived. On this historic day the nation can drop everything and queue up at bookshops to buy copies of the latest volumes of Alastair Campbell's diaries. The Guardian serialised extracts from Campbell's diaries last Saturday and on Monday. Editing a fine volume of 746 pages into around 4,000 words meant that, inevitably, we did not publish every interesting item. So here, i
Britain is now more Thatcherite than when Margaret Thatcher was in power, with people much less supportive of the welfare state and the redistribution of wealth than in the 1980s, according to an authoritative study of the country's mood. New Labour oversaw the biggest recorded shift to the right in public attitudes on those measures, despite a surge in concern about the scale of the wealth gap be
We let down younger people. We thought that relying on Tony Blair's charisma was enough I had my head shot off by all sides when, in the leadership election, I expressed a view on Labour's direction. Plus ça change. But the leadership has been decided and Ed Miliband should be given space to lead the party alongside the new generation of Labour politicians. I want them to succeed. If they are wise
But Miliband's decision is a signal that he intends to assert his own authority on Labour's economic policy, reducing the risk of the splits that marred the Brown-Blair era. It is also shows that the Labour leader does not intend to shift dramatically from the economic plan laid out before the election by the former chancellor, Alistair Darling, who proposed to halve the budget deficit over four y
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