A busy few days in politics...

Well, it has, hasn't it? We've had shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas' election victory earlier this year declared void after it was ruled that he deliberately made misleading comments about a rival. A by-election must now be contested in the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat which Woolas had originally won by a wafer-thin 103 votes over Liberal Democrat Elwyn Watkins. Woolas has also been suspended by Labour but it's worrying that such a high profile candidate was able to make such comments in the first place.

Then there's the news that Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director Andy Coulson has been interviewed by police - again - over the News of the World 'phone hacking scandal. Coulson was the paper's editor at the time but claimed to have no knowledge of the endemic hacking that eventually led to a journalist receiving a custodial sentence, leading commentators to suggest that either Coulson was woefully inept - where did he think his stories were coming from? - or is a liar. In either case, Cameron's decision to employ him as a government lackey is a peculiar one and one that he might just be starting to regret.

And now it transpires that Nigel Farage - the man who was dramatically injured in an airplane crash on election day - has been reelected as leader of UKIP less than a year after stepping down from the top job. It's amazing to think what can happen in just a week away...