Detail Quote by Kate Garraway

Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As…

— Grant Shapps

Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.

— Owen Jones

Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people's everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments…

— Esther McVey

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes…

— Lucy Powell

Working within newspapers, so many of them are so used to the status quo, they're so invested in lobby journalism, and assuming that all…

— Dawn Foster

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

— Rajeev Shukla

What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a…

— Peter Hitchens

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

— Ann Widdecombe

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

— Robert Harris

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to…

— Andrew Neil

“You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning…

— John McDonnell