Public Service - analysis_opinion_debate

Douglas Alexander

The latest news and articles featuring Douglas Alexander, Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary

Douglas Alexander NEWS

Cameron

Cameron complains EU is ignoring him
Van Rompuy is criticised for seeming to ignore any ideas that do not originate from Paris or Berlin

Cameron stands firm on EU institutions
EU states should not use EU institutions to discuss single market issues that affect other member states, he said

Cameron says 'non' to EU treaty change
''What is on offer isn't in Britain's interests so I didn't agree to it,'' the Prime Minister said after the eurozone summit

Big name Scots MPs must fight for survival
Plans to cut the number of Scottish seats in the UK parliament from 59 to 52 have been unveiled by the Boundary Commission

Labour leader Ed Miliband reveals his new shadow cabinet
He has promoted six of the 2010 intake, claiming to bring forward ''a new generation of Labour talent''

LATEST FEATURES

Tricky times for a 'wee sceptic'
A backbench revolt over calls for an EU referendum has piled the pressure on David Cameron who was already struggling to balance the demands of his party's Eurosceptics against those of his pro-European coalition partners. Matthew George reports

Gordon Brown: 'This election will be about social mobility'
The Tories are abandoning the middle classes, according to the Prime Minister. 'They have planned a raid on the quality of life of our middle class and ours is the only party that will protect and not squeeze that mainstream middle,' he said

haiti earthquake'Every hour matters' for survivors of earthquake
But there will be a long term effort after the earthquake in Haiti, Douglas Alexander promises as the UK prepares to send out an assessment team to the disaster area where around 100,000 people are thought to have died, including 200 UN workers