Alan Watkins

Alan Watkins

Alan Watkins is a political commentator with a long and illustrious history. Author of books A Short Walk Down Fleet Street and A Conservative Coup, he won the 2005 Edgar Wallace Award for Fine Writing at the London Press Club awards. He also writes about rugby.

Alan Watkins: Clegg's soft touch will be hard to sustain

The Lib Dem leader's success in the first debate resembles an old-style third-party win in a by-election

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Alan Watkins: Adonis left it too late for a Lib-Lab pact

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Nick Clegg now regards himself as one of the big boys, not as a subordinate partner to Labour

Tony Blair joined the campaign trail in a speech at the Labour club in Trimdon, his former constituency, yesterday

No 10 is for the winner, not the also-ran

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Alan Watkins: The idea that Gordon Brown might stay in Downing Street at the head of the second-largest party is preposterous. In any event, the Labour Party is facing an abyss which make such thoughts irrelevant

Alan Watkins: Mr Darling is the hero of the hour

Sunday, 28 March 2010

The Chancellor is the last piece of the good ship New Labour that is still afloat – just

Alan Watkins: A dog's dinner of an election

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Voters are fed up with Labour, but don't want the Tories either – the leading players are so unimpressive

Alan Watkins: A hung parliament is a red herring

Sunday, 14 March 2010

Just because the winning party has a tiny majority, it doesn't mean it cannot govern

Alan Watkins: Michael Foot – an intellectual prizefighter

Sunday, 7 March 2010

The Labour veteran, who died on Wednesday, seemed bookish, but he was an early television star who relished a skirmish

Alan Watkins: Heath bullied. Thatcher too. But not this PM

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Some incumbents of No 10 really have tormented colleagues. This one is just bad-tempered – and bad at his job

Alan Watkins: Labour's gift for picking the wrong leader

Sunday, 21 February 2010

With many promising politicians to choose from, the best one is passed over – and that was 1976. But history repeats itself...

Alan Watkins: Mr Osborne is the fly in the ointment

Sunday, 14 February 2010

The Conservative Party has history with Kenneth Clarke, but he's the warhorse who would clinch it for Mr Cameron

Alan Watkins: Mr Brown survives the snowflakes

Sunday, 10 January 2010

The conspirators' plot to topple the Prime Minister melted away even before there was a nickname for it

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