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Victory: how Somerset turned blue

Despite the expenses scandal, West Country voters are taking the Conservative message to heart

Who will be the real winners?

The polls tell us Labour will do badly on Thursday. Gordon Brown will have to say something, even if it’s only ‘Goodbye’

The House where time stood still

Underpaid and underpowered: we deny MPs the tools to do a proper job. And here’s the sad fact – I was saying it 45 years ago

Crisis calls for elected House of Lords

Parliamentary reform is vital to convince the public that Britain is honestly governed

Damage limitation is Labour’s only option

This Parliament is exhausted. We need new MPs, a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister

The Labour leadership: no change, no chance

The party may be reluctant to do it, but the only hope it has of winning the next election is to replace Gordon Brown

The Labour leadership: no change, no chance

The party may be reluctant to do it, but the only hope it has of winning the next election is to replace Gordon Brown

New Labour is old hat

Under Brown the party is moving uncomfortably close to the semi-socialist trade union past Blair tried to leave behind

The Labour smear machine backfires

The latest polls show that Gordon Brown has damaged the office of Prime Minister

Of great verses and the great poets I sing

The past masters of poetry are familiar friends to be revisited and worthy mentors for the aspiring writer