Chris Huhne
The poverty of Britain’s energy debate
How big does Shale have to get before our policymakers wake up to its implications? There is an Energy Summit in No.10 today where Chris Huhne wants to focus on… Continue reading
64 CommentsChris Huhne: an apology
I have apology to make. I wrote on Friday that I suspected Chris Huhne’s mistweet “fine, but I don’t want my fingerprints on the story” was the Climate Change Secretary… Continue reading
17 CommentsChris Huhne makes a Tweet of himself
Chris Huhne has fallen into the Twitter direct message trap. I’ve done it myself.* When you think you’re privately messaging someone then — horror! — it is broadcast to the… Continue reading
21 CommentsLessons in How Politics Works: Chris Huhne Edition
Presumably Chris Huhne didn’t send this Tweet either? Clearly this was supposed to be a private message text message sent to some lobby hack, presumably with Huhne complaining about George… Continue reading
6 CommentsOsborne’s carbon conceits
George Osborne told a Conservative Party increasingly wary of expensive climate policies that Britain needs to "cut [its] carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries… Continue reading
16 CommentsThe strange case of the extra £5bn
Strange things are happening between Whitehall and Birmingham. After the IMF downgraded its growth forecast for Britain yesterday, the BBC reported that some government were considering spending an additional £5bn… Continue reading
23 CommentsTories hit back at Huhne and his policies
Chris Huhne can always be guaranteed to grate. Several Conservatives have cracked wry smiles at the energy secretary’s comments about the “Tory Tea Party tendency”. Mark Pritchard quipped that plenty… Continue reading
19 CommentsThe Lib Dems quietly debate the NHS
Chris Huhne’s tough guy act aside, the major event in Birmingham today was the Lib Dems’ NHS debate. When Andrew Lansley’s contentious NHS reforms were derailed earlier this year, Liberal Democrats… Continue reading
3 CommentsHuhne, the Lib Dems’ black comedian
Today we got the black comedy follow up to Sarah Teather’s stand-up routine. Chris Huhne is going to drive down our energy bills! For those of us wondering how families… Continue reading
16 CommentsTime to leave the EU?
Today’s Lib Dem attack on their coalition partners comes from Chris Huhne, who rails against a "Tea Party tendency" in Conservatives sceptical of the European Union. His premise is that those… Continue reading
83 CommentsClegg’s leadership conundrum
If Nick Clegg has decided that he won’t run for re-election, what are the implications? Today’s Daily Mail serializes a book by Jasper Gerard about the party, where he claims Clegg… Continue reading
23 CommentsHuhne ramps up the rhetoric on 50p
Chris Huhne’s comments to Prospect magazine about the 50p tax rate are typically provocative. The millionaire, former City boy accuses the Tories of wanting to abolish the 50p tax rate… Continue reading
27 CommentsCameron’s energy price headache
The list of things that will be Big Politics when Parliament returns from its summer break is growing all the time: growth, the post-riot clean-up, the undeserving rich, multiple squeezes,… Continue reading
50 CommentsThe Huhne story returns
The news that the Crown Prosecution Service has asked Essex Police to make further inquiries into the whole allegation that Chris Huhne asked his then wife to take speeding points… Continue reading
21 CommentsHuhne pooh-poohs rising energy bills as ‘nonsense’
Chris Huhne was on the Andrew Marr show this morning. As you might expect on a day when the Sunday Telegraph broke the news that fuel bills will boom by 30… Continue reading
66 CommentsThe phone hacking scandal tests the ties that bind the coalition
Gosh, this phone hacking scandal is moving at a pace. Fresh from the wire comes news that even the government is reviewing its advertising contracts with the News of the… Continue reading
13 CommentsWhere now for the Huhne story after Sunday Times hands over tape?
Roy Greenslade’s report in the Evening Standard that The Sunday Times will hand over to Essex Police the tape of Chris Huhne talking to his estranged wife Vicky Pryce that… Continue reading
21 CommentsCameron should cleanse his Cabinet of the undead
Chris Huhne "cannot be sure" whether he might, after all, have been driving his car that fateful night. Ken Clarke cannot be sure why he spoke about rape in that… Continue reading
48 CommentsLaws calls for unity — but faces trouble
The personal and the political. They mesh to readable effect in David Laws’ interview with the Times (£) this morning, his first since resigning from government last year. There are… Continue reading
8 CommentsCameron’s personnel issues
The past fortnight has been instructive in just how little control David Cameron has over the make-up of his Cabinet. Every choice he makes, it seems, has to be weighed… Continue reading
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