Guido shares a page with the Prime Minister in today’s Sun. Dave makes the case for welfare reform, and in Guido’s column you can read all about:

• Lynton Crosby’s effect on Osborne
• Ed Balls and the bookie
• Michael Meacher’s bedroom tax fears
• Ed Miliband’s sauna
• Where’s Chuka? Somewhere far cooler than “full of trash” London
• Gorgeous George and his harem
• Tony is still a “straight kinda guy”

Politics for the people, all for only 60p…

Much has been made of the Scottish Sun’s apparent decision to say no to freedom for Scotland over recent days. The Indy reported that “Rupert Murdoch’s interest in winning independence for Scotland has ended” as the paper “will not be backing independence”. It seems they’ve jumped the gun. Today the Scottish Sun have released a statement insisting it is “far too early” to make a decision on whether to back the yes or the no camp. One to keep an eye on…

Today’s Sun is packed with politics: read Louise Mensch on the Labour MPs who condemned her for “abandoning her constituents” but are now praising David Miliband, and Danny Alexander on “Labour’s better-off bedroom blockers”. In Guido’s column:

• David Miliband’s cursed followers
• Balls keeping his distance from toxic “Mr McBride”
• McPoison’s row with a Labour candidate
• Stella Creasy coy over her ambitions
• Boozy Tory MPs partying with young Conservatives
• Burnham’s fearful cagefight
• The Treasury has a secret-spy in the Foreign Office

All for only 50p. Happy Easter!

Just a week after Guido wrote in the Sun that they’d need to send a warship to regulate this blog, his local paper reports that an US aircraft carrier is on course for Wexford. Apparently talks are taking place for the vessel to be stationed of the Irish coast this summer for the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s visit. They’ll never take us alive…

The Sun is the latest newspaper website to go behind a paywall, they will start charging online readers in the second half of 2013.

Guido’s column is exclusively in the print edition, so readers can continue to get their weekly Sunday gossip down their local newsagents for just 50p. Quality comes at a cost…

There are eleven Guido stories in today’s Sun column. You can find out:

• How have the Have I Got News for You team been trying to convince Jacob Rees-Mogg to come on the show?
  
• How did Chuka celebrate St Patrick’s Day?
• Gordon finds a friend down under.
• Speculation of another Tory-LibDem by-election battle is growing.
• Chris Huhne’s SpAd wreaks revenge.
• Watson tries to land a punch on Gove.
• Why we could be seeing a lot more of Alastair Campbell’s wife.
• Why has Nigel Farage told aides he is never to be left alone with one attractive activist?

All this and more in your 50p Sun.

Even in opposition, Ed Balls is still finding ways to waste taxpayers’ money. New figures show a group of senior Labour MPs have claimed £151,474 on expenses paid to Gordon and Badley Communications, a PR firm run by two party acolytes. Fiona Gordon is the partner of Labour MP Steve McCabe and was the Prime Mentalist’s political secretary, Caroline Badley was a party press officer. Guido wonders how many other non-Labour affiliated PR firms were considered.

The 16 senior Labour MPs using taxpayer cash to help out their old pals include Balls, Yvette Cooper, Liam Byrne, Jon Cruddas, Tom Watson, Bridget Phillipson, Diana Johnson, Emma Reynolds, Gisela Stuart, Ian Austin, Jack Dromey, Julie Hilling, Khalid Mahmood, Lyn Brown, Robert Flello and Shabana Mahmood. Cronyism plain and simple…

There are 24 political stories in the Sun today, including an exclusive revealing how Ed Balls is still wasting taxpayers’ money in opposition. Guido shares a page with an article on the budget from George Osborne, naturally Guido’s column is to the right of the Chancellor. In the column;

• Treasury deputy Danny Alexander is getting his excuses in early.
• Liam Fox to Brussels?
• LibDem MEPs defy Clegg.
• Red Ken isn’t so opposed to privatisation after all. Find out what he has in common with Dave: you’ll Harley believe it!
  
• Seb Coe looks like he is running for office.
• How Pickles left trade unionists shivering in the cold.
• The MPs who went on a Jamaica junket as we shiver.
• The not so independent inquiry into Rennard.
• Who was Chuka Umunna’s red carpet date?

All for just 50p…

Guido is sharing a page with Ed Miliband in the Sun today. In Guido’s column:

• Evidence that Carina will stand by her man
  
• Theresa May’s rubber chicken circuit tour
• The ominous past of the Victory 2015 conference venue
• With the LibDems in trouble – who do they call?
• Labour’s expectations from Lord Ashcroft
• Burnham’s Mid Staffs crisis
• Fox’s advice for Osborne

There are 25 political stories in the Sun today. All for just 50p…

When he’s not being questioned by the cops for being rude to gypsies, former DfE minister Tim Loughton is dreaming up new ways to embarrass his old boss Michael Gove. As Guido revealed in yesterday’s Sun column, Loughton has sent in 87 awkward written questions to the department since he was given the chop. He is right to have a go at the police for wasting taxpayer cash, but given that it costs on average £164 to answer each question, FoI data estimates DfE have spent £14,268 on Loughton’s retirement fishing trip. Revenge is a dish that does not come cheap.