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Well, its been coming. Another insignificant Twitter defection. I won’t pretend that me jumping across to the Coalition’s junior Party means anything will change, or that anybody even cares about me doing so. But, I do write here often. Surprisingly, and thankfully a couple of hundred of you give me a read every now and then. So here’s my explanation on why I’ll be joining the Liberal Democrats. I’ve always classed myself as a Liberal, but thought myself to be too Right-wing for the Liberal Democra...

Evening Standard Politics blog Joe Murphy, Nicholas Cecil and Craig Woodhouse report from the darkest corners of Westminster 04 May 2012 Boris Johnson is now the most important Conservative in the land. He has achieved something no Tory has managed for 20 years - to become genuinely popular. In a city where Labour voters outnumber Tories by five to three, he appears to have secured an eye-popping triumph. And that against a backdrop of austerity and tumbling Tory ratings. Now a new battle is under ...

Letters Remploy closures are the Tories’ most wicked cut yet It gives no satisfaction to be able to rank the coalition’s cuts in terms of wickedness. But the proposed closure of the Remploy factories—and the loss of thousands of supported jobs for disabled workers—must be one of the most evil policies they’ve announced so far. Remploy factories have been supporting thousands of disabled workers’ return to work since 1946. Initially set up to give disabled ex-service personnel employment, it was soo...