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This is where you can come for my take on politics with an eastern twist - from Lowestoft to Luton
16:27 UK time, Sunday, 23 October 2011
The old issue of airport expansion is back on the political agenda again.
The government's consultation on what its future aviation policy should be closed in October and the aviation industry is pushing hard to be allowed to expand, particularly in the South East.
16:42 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
When she won the Norwich North by-election in 2009 Chloe Smith became the youngest MP in parliament.
At the weekend, at the grand age of 29 years, 4 months and 27 days she became the youngest minister in government, promoted to Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
09:07 UK time, Monday, 17 October 2011
The devotion of shadow chancellor Ed Balls to Norwich City is legendary... well, no secret anyway, but it doesn't often surface in the House of Commons.
During Labour's debate on the economy Mr Balls rose to a challenge laid down by the Conservative MP for West Suffolk.
10:28 UK time, Thursday, 13 October 2011
The crisis facing the future of bus services in the region has been laid bare by MPs from the east in the House of Commons.
The catalyst was a funding shortfall which has left Norfolk County Council £4.5m out of pocket, one of the largest shortfalls in the country.
10:33 UK time, Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Vicky Ford's mother was born in 1937.
She was born in 1967 and her daughter, yes, was born in 1997.
16:11 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011
The Forty Club is the club that nobody wants to be in.
The club is made up of the 40 most marginal Conservative MPs in the country - the ones who are most likely to lose their seats at the next election.
13:17 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011
"The only way is to renegotiate a treaty governing our relationship with Europe" is a sentiment expressed by any number of our Conservative MPs.
Some, like Andrea Leadsom, MP for South Northamptonshire, are even working on a "Fresh Start Project" which aims to set out what a new treaty would look like.
16:45 UK time, Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Eric Pickles has launched a broadside at the Dale Farm travellers, telling them the planning system must be fair to all.
"We should support those who play by the rules, treating law-abiding people equally and fairly," he said, while announcing that councils are to get stronger enforcement powers to prevent unauthorised sites, like Dale Farm, from being established in the first place.
16:36 UK time, Monday, 3 October 2011
Another conference, another pamphlet on the future of the European Union and this one is calling very clearly for us to pull right out, right now.
David Campbell Bannerman, who left UKIP to join the Tories five months ago, is arguing that things could be better outside the EU.
08:04 UK time, Friday, 30 September 2011
One of the themes of this week's Labour Party conference has been standing up for people who feel left out of society. Ed Miliband believes that included the travellers of Dale Farm.
As the legal wranglings continue, he told us: "I don't think Basildon Council has handled this situation very sensitively. Of course the law has to be enforced, but it must be done in a way that's sensitive."
13:11 UK time, Thursday, 29 September 2011
Richard Howitt MEP has stepped in on the side of the travellers facing eviction from the site at Dale Farm in Essex.
Although his leader, Ed Milband, has declared otherwise, Labour's MEP for the East believes the residents of Dale Farm should not be evicted.
12:54 UK time, Thursday, 29 September 2011
Tribute was paid from the podium at the Labour Party Conference to Shadow Defra Minister Gavin Shuker by his boss Mary Creagh for his hard work this year.
The Shadow Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mrs Creagh was arguing for the protection of the wages of people who work on the land.
15:35 UK time, Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Labour has a target of 10 seats in the East which it needs to win if it is to have a hope of forming a government. That goal is one identified by Bob Blizzard.
The former Waveney MP lost his seat last year, just, and will know in a few weeks' time if he has been selected to fight the seat again.
18:22 UK time, Sunday, 25 September 2011
If anyone knows the challenges facing Labour in the East, it's Ed Balls.
The shadow chancellor isn't just a former Norfolk boy and an ardent supporter of Norwich City, he's also the party's "campaign tsar" in the East.
07:57 UK time, Friday, 23 September 2011
Former home secretary Charles Clarke has formally announced that he is leaving front-line politics.
It confirms what he told us last year that he won't be standing at the next general election. He says it's time to pass on the baton.
13:28 UK time, Thursday, 22 September 2011
"It's an uncomfortable time to be in government," says Norman Lamb. "Times are tough."
There is no complacency at the Lib Dem conference, business was brisk around coffee tables in Birmingham.
11:12 UK time, Wednesday, 21 September 2011
The Liberal Democrats conference may have passed off without incident so far, but not everyone has been thrilled by proceedings.
"It's been bland," one activist tells me. "The Lib Dem conference is supposed to be policy-making. We've just had the liveliest debate so far on the party's wellbeing policy and we actually had a vote. But there's nothing like last year's NHS debate or the one on free schools."
11:42 UK time, Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Our region's only elected mayor has been telling Treasury Minister Danny Alexander how it is.
Bedford is the east's sole representative of a system that the government wants to become much more widespread.
15:37 UK time, Monday, 19 September 2011
Only a decisive move to European federal government can provide an answer to Europe's ills, maintains Andrew Duff MEP.
Attending the Lib Dem Conference in Birmingham, he produces a freshly printed pamphlet he's written, with the catchy title Federal Union Now.
11:55 UK time, Monday, 19 September 2011
The Liberal Democrat party president has rallied activists from the Eastern region, telling them "our fightback begins with you".
Tim Farron was speaking at the regional party's annual reception held to mark the start of the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham.
Deborah McGurran is BBC East's political editor, based in Norwich.
She has worked in regional TV since 1990 when she began as a regional journalist for North West Tonight.
She has been editor for a decade and was nominated for an RTS for the expenses scandal story on Margaret Moran.
She moved to Essex with her family and started working in the east 15 years ago.
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