It praises David Miliband and James Purnell but contains a damning assessment of Ed Balls, and Harriet Harman. Ed Miliband doesn't even rate a mention. The US didn't understand that it doesn't matter who the MP's or Party members want it is up to the...

The moment it was greeted as the challenge to the PM’s authority that it certainly was, off he scarpered, denying any such intent,” he wrote. “Within a year, his close friend and Cabinet ally James Purnell resigned, laying the ground for David to oust...

Oh, well, this is fiction, so go with the flow. But James quite definitely could do with being able to look up some of his enemies online. Instead, he relies on a series of lucky breaks and a handy ability in top surveillance, gleaned from his...

Hoskin 11:32am In truth, it's not a new or surprising idea at all. Labour's brain-in-exile, James Purnell, urged this sort of thinking on his party in a speech last April, which I blogged at the time — although he called it the ‘contributory...

Byrne briefly alludes to this fact ("Beveridge's system was built on the idea of full employment") but says nothing about the severe implications for welfare reform. Indeed, his article is replete with generalities but painfully short on specifics. ...

In his introduction to The Conservatives: A History, Robin Harris quotes James Purnell, a not untypical Labour politician, who wrote in his resignation letter about his 'love' for Labour. Harris drily remarks: No Conservative politician at any stage of...