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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Sparrow

Worth a look: politics articles we like

Jonathan Isaby at ConservativeHome reports on a survey of more than 1,000 party members showing 81% of them think Julie Kirkbride should stand down as an MP.

Terry Waite explains in the Times why he is thinking of standing for parliament as an independent.

Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail says that David Cameron reminds him increasingly of Tony Blair and that Cameron "has yet to convince me that he is a man of moral vision".

Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph says that he is thinking against standing against his local MP, the deputy Speaker who claimed £12,000 for gardening, Sir Alan Haselhurst.

But Iain Dale on his blog says Heffer's campaign has stalled at the first hurdle, because Haselhurst has just put out a statement saying that he is paying back the gardening money.

Colin Brown on the Today programme website on how researching a history of Whitehall made him agree with Enoch Powell's dictum about all political careers ending in failure.

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