A selection of recent media reports
Friday, 30 April 2010
One would have required a heart of stone to witness yesterday's events in Rochdale without falling about. For weeks, Labour's general election campaign has been stage-managed to within an inch of its life suddenly, in the person of Gillian Duffy, it collided very messily with the unscripted real world. If there has been precious little to cheer us up in this rather dour contest, the spectacle of the Prime Minister being so thoroughly discombobulated barely a week before polling day did the trick. It was a moment of great comic uplift.
Daily Telegraph (29-Apr-2010)
It was the day that the great unspoken issue of the election - immigration - exploded in Gordon Brown's face.
Daily Mail (29-Apr-2010)
The Liberal Democrats weakness on crime and security issues will hit their poll ratings in the final week of the campaign, Home Secretary Alan Johnson claimed last...
Wales Online (29-Apr-2010)
By Kaye...
Politics.co.uk (29-Apr-2010)
By Andy Dangerfield BBC News, London Rushanara Ali, pictured with Gordon Brown, wants more Asian women MPs Many factors are uncertain when it comes to trying to predict the outcome of the general...
BBC London (29-Apr-2010)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's chance encounter with a 65-year-old widow, who he called a 'bigoted woman', could seal the outcome of the general elections for Labour as 'the party has lost not just hers, but potentially thousands of others who will listen to what she said'.
Irish Sun (29-Apr-2010)
GORDON Brown has spent much of this election campaign whining about politics being turned into a beauty contest and calling for more emphasis to be placed on...
Daily Express (29-Apr-2010)
IT IS a sound principle of public administration that bad behaviour should be penalised, not simply because that is the correct ethical response but also because that way the incentives for others to behave well are...
Daily Express (29-Apr-2010)
What happened yesterday between Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown in Rochdale does not merely mark a turning point in the General Election campaign. Their encounter, and what followed, should be remembered as a kind of watershed in the relationship between those who govern us and the...
Mail Online (29-Apr-2010)
FAILED asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who turn violent to avoid being kicked out of Britain are costing the taxpayer £8million a year, it emerged...
Sunday Express (29-Apr-2010)
Well, grunted Gordon Brown, 'that was a disaster'. He never spoke truer word. His ungallant slur on Gillian Duffy was indeed a misfortune. Possibly a...
Mail Online (29-Apr-2010)
By Alex...
Politics.co.uk (29-Apr-2010)
Grandmother Gillian Duffy isn't the sort of person who hides her political allegiances. The lifelong Labour supporter who told Gordon Brown her father sang the traditional socialist Red-Flag song when he was a teenager - has displayed posters in her window supporting the party for years and she is known...
Manchester Evening News (28-Apr-2010)
One minute you are popping round the corner for a loaf of white sliced, and the next you are changing the course of British politics. Yes, it was a funny old day for Gillian Duffy. Not funny at all for Gordon Brown, of...
Telegraph.co.uk (28-Apr-2010)
I suppose it is the perfect expression of how and why the Labour Party has lost the white working class vote in the last fifteen years; it has only contempt for...
The Spectator (28-Apr-2010)
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