BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field led the charge today over the debate over English devolution in the wake of questions over Scottish independence.

At PMQs he asked the Prime Minister: "Will you devote as much time to facing up to the grievances the English feel from the current proposals of devolution as you will be giving to considering new proposals of devolution for Scotland?"

Mr Cameron said experts were examining the "West Lothian question", named after the constituency of Labour's Tam Dalyell, who first raised the issue of Scottish MPs voting on issues which affect only English electors.

Alex Salmond will deliver a Roscoe lecture on the case for an independent Scotland next month.

The lectures at St George's Hall always throw up some interesting speakers and subjects, and inaugural lecture of 2012 from the Scottish First Minister promises to be a classic.

It can be difficult getting tickets for the lectures at the best of time, and I expect after David Cameron's intervention today, places for Salmond's lecture will be in high demand.

Well done today to Seema Malhotra, the new MP for the west London constituency of Feltham and Heston.

The former advisor to Harriet Harman was given the nod following the death of Labour Co-op MP Alan Keen, who held the seat from 1992 until his death last month.

But running right next to the result was the turnout figure of 28.8% - the lowest at a by-election for 11 years.

Almost 75% of people in Liverpool believe David Cameron is not going a good job as Prime Minister.

The unsurprising finding was reavealed by a survey done by a team of 100 reporters from JMU Journalism.

Of 396 questioned 295 said he wasn't doing a good job, 70 said yes, and 31 were unsure.

The debate around full disclosure of the documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster is due to take place in the House of Commons this evening as the families of the 96 made a fresh call to The Sun newspaper to reveal their controversial police sources.

Hillsborough Family Support Group chair Margaret Aspinall, who lost her 18-year-old son James in the disaster, demanded the paper name who told them the lies that caused such deep hurt in this city.

The Government won a vote in the House of Lords on second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill this week. The Bill will now be scrutinised by the Lords line by line, there will be more votes, there will be amendments and debate.

Those are the facts.

If you listen to the Labour Party however, the NHS ended this week and no-one dares to grow old or get ill. It is the worst kind of gutter politics and shows Labour is prepared to stoop very low to whip up hatred of the Coalition and all its works. But like the debt bubble Labour built its borrowing strategy on (£400 million per day don't forget), one day Labour's populism bubble will burst. One day people will want to know what Labour is for and not just what it is against.

THE Government wants us to believe there is no money for repairing schools.

Today we reported how the government has rejected a plan B put together by the city to replace the axed Building Schools for the Future project.

Schools minister Nick Gibb might as well have suggested that Liverpool schools will have to put a bucket under a leaking roof, because the country is skint.

However, become an Academy or a "free-school" and his boss, education secretary Michael Gove, will pluck some money off his magical money tree.

No wonder that schools are milking the academy cash cow - who can blame them?

I'm sure many of you have already seen the footage of David Cameron telling Angela Eagle to calm down dear at Prime Minister's Questions, but in case you want to watch it again here it is.

From: Bradley, Warren
Subject: LABOUR'S SURGE IN THE NORTH

IN CONFIDENCE - PRIVATE

Dear Nick and the Parliamentarians,

I have to date kept my frustrations and criticisms based on policy rather than just having a go because I don't want to be in bed with the Tories; unfortunately the boil is about to come to a head and burst (probably on election night) when we lose some very well respected and experienced colleagues from Liverpool City Council.

The Labour and Trade Union movement are saturating the streets of Liverpool, even in our heartlands.

DALE Street is the political powerhouse of the city, with the Town Hall at one end and Municipal Buildings at the other.

Like Blues music, politics in Liverpool can often be full of surprises, but it is never dull. Indeed reporting politics in Liverpool is a fascinating job.

Hopefully this blog will help shed some more light on the comings and goings in the corridors of power (not just in Liverpool, but also across the region).

And finally, both council leader Warren Bradley and the Labour opposition leader Joe Anderson are Evertonians.