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Telegraph.co.uk Alastair Campbell to lecture on Tony Blair university course Telegraph.co.uk - 48 minutes ago By Jon Swaine Mr Campbell has agreed to address history students at Queen Mary, University of London on his experiences as Mr Blair's spokesman and Director of Communications for almost a decade.

Angela Eagle, Labour MP for Wallasey, has gone through a civil partnership ceremony with her partner of 18 years, Maria Exall, a BT engineer and trade union activist. The ceremony took place yesterday at the Southwark Registry Office in South London, followed by a celebration at the Bread and Roses pub in nearby Clapham.

"Word has it," writes Plaid AM Bethan Jenkins, "that Harriet Harman was supposed to carry out the role of introducing Brown to conference." But was it Gordon's idea to sideline his deputy leader or Alistair Campbell's?

To ensure she remains the bookies favourite to replace Brown.

David Cameron is not on Guru's Christmas card list - or even his urinate-at-if-on-fire list - but Yours Truly was still shocked at an attack on him at the Labour Party conference last week. Yep, women's minister Harriet Harman really went to town on poor old Dave up in Manchester - although maybe her bitterness reflected incidents earlier in her own life rather than on the Tory leader.

Harriet Harman yesterday gave the closing speech at Labour’s annual conference in Manchester. With the day’s proceedings overshadowed by the news that Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly is to stand down at the reshuffle - expected next week, Harman appeared to have arrived from another planet, or a

The Daily Telegraph has recently printed their list of the top 100 British Left-wingers. A closer look at the upper echelons of the list reveals some interesting facts about our lords and masters and their true ideological leanings. 1. Gordon Brown At No.1 in the traitorous hit parade is the man himself, Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Maybe they really thought Mehdi Kazemi’s rescue would be a distraction, but the Home Office and its UK Border Agency are already back to trying to deport gay asylum seekers: An Azerbaijani artist who is claiming asylum in the UK was detained yesterday at his weekly sign-in at the UK Border Agency Offices in Cardiff.

I use the BBC News website quite a lot, it's a great site, but it lets itself down by having a politics section run by what seem to be Gordon Brown's best mates. On last night's Question Time, Harriet Harman got a right slating from the panel and the audience (even though it seemed that Labour HQ had bussed in the last of their die-hard supporters from the bunker).

Harriet Harman has reignited the controversy about Labour ministers commenting on the US elections, after Gordon Brown was forced to retract a recent article praising Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama which caused fury in the Republican John McCain campaign.