Peter Kellner

President of YouGov, political commentator and journalist

The politics of gender have bubbled to the surface of political debate. Some Tories are worried that women are deserting them in such numbers that the party will lose the next election.

Nicholas Barrett

International Journalism student at City University London

Modern politics is all about framing. Due to decades of public skepticism towards politicians, party leaders no longer wish to be seen as dogmatic ideologues, they would much rather be thought of as pragmatic managers of public life.

Layla Haidrani

History student at University of Kent, Canterbury, commentator on contemporary issues and political affairs

In a period of grave economic downturn, why is the current government making everyday life more difficult for poorer families?

Neil Scott

Lefty blogger who is based in Scotland and who supports the movement for an Independent Scotland.

The UK is not OK for Scotland's vulnerable.

Kevin Brennan

Labour MP for Cardiff West and Shadow Minister for Schools

Some may question the value of PE and school sport citing their own school experiences of poor quality PE teaching in a bygone age. But research shows that physical activity can help to improve academic performance. Indeed specialist sports colleges were often the most improved schools academically in recent years.

Robert Halfon

Conservative MP for Harlow, Essex

Already in parliament, and through the website www.GreatGordonBrownRepealBill.com I have argued that the focus must be on lifting the burden of taxes off the low-paid. Once we have lifted the personal allowance to £10,000, I think the next step must be to restore the 10p rate.

Stewart Wood

Shadow Cabinet Minister, Labour peer and an adviser to Ed Miliband

Paying attention to the plight of the Middle is no longer simply a matter of distributing goodies to capture their votes. In 2013, the problem of the Middle has become the central economic challenge facing our country.

Jon Trickett MP

Jon Trickett MP is Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and MP for Hemsworth

The Tory-led government have broken their promise to deliver a more efficient and effective government. Time after time they have got the figures wrong, from the economy to their ICT strategy they have failed in basic arithmetic. The Tories evidently need a refresher course in adding and subtraction.

Tom Harris

Labour MP for Glasgow South and Shadow Environment Minister

I'm sorry Sam Parker feels that Tony Blair robbed a generation of their faith in politics. But he seems to be confused about the reasons why the disillusionment set in.

Emily Stacey

Golf enthusiast and freelance writer

Since achieving praise for his recent speech on the UK's relationship with the European Union where he threatened an in/out referendum by 2017 if treaty changes are not granted, Cameron has demonstrated strong leadership at testing times, despite perhaps not being the most popular Tory in his party.

David Clark

Editor of shiftinggrounds.org and served as Robin Cook's Special Adviser at the Foreign Office 1997-2001

Ed Miliband deserves much more credit for the progress he has made so far in putting Labour back in contention.

Dr Kate Hudson

General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Many people from across the political spectrum are opening their minds to a reconsideration of Britain's strategic and security needs.

Jawad Yaqub

Enterprise Architect with 20 years in the industry who currently runs and owns Razormind worldwide

Will the government make something of the Big Society in time to win the elections?

Helen Croydon

Author, Journalist and Broadcaster

It was a relief for me that the Commons voted so strongly in favour of gay marriage - not because I'd like to marry a woman - but for peace of mind that our politicians have not been time warped along with Richard III. The so-called traditionalists, who claimed that allowing gay marriage would alter centuries of marital custom, don't know what they are talking about. The form and purpose of marriage is constantly being reinvented.

Sam Parker

Culture Editor of Huffington Post UK

Like hundreds of teenagers who didn't make the real thing, students at my school hastily arranged their own small protest, marching through our small rural town chanting and playing anti-war music. We must have looked pathetic, but we didn't care. We were adding a cry to a national roar that made the hairs on the back of our necks stand up.

Tom Greatrex

Shadow Energy Minister

It is relatively rare in politics for there to be something approaching universal support for a single policy. Yet that is where we are, or were, in relation to setting a target for the decarbonisation of the power sector by 2030, and it is why MPs from the governing parties should today give their backing to Labour's amendment to include a target in the Energy Bill.