The ShortList – March 28th

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Catch up with all the last week’s highlights on LabourList with the ShortList.

This week’s PPC Profile is of Cannock Chase’s Sue Woodward.

Douglas Alexander sat down with Alex Smith to discuss the “word of mouth” election — and what that means for Labour activists.

And, as critiques of George Osborne began to disappear on ConHome, LabourList resurrected our “Where’s George Osborne?” feature, retweeting and reposting one of the classic MyDavidCameron posters.

Here’s a new one along similar lines.

And, as the Tories reverted back to Saatchi advertising, the brilliant Political Scrapbook hypothesises on what their brief might’ve looked like.

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News

This weekend, Labour launched its five key pledges for the manifesto — check out the new pledge card here.

As Gordon Brown unveiled the pledges (full speech here), Victoria Street unveiled its new look election website…

WATCH: Gordon Brown unveils Labour’s pledges to every citizen.

Share the five new pledges with your friends on Facebook — here’s how…

Gordon Brown also outlined some new immigration details this week.

Chris Mullin bids a tearful farewell to Parliament with his valedictory speech.

John Healey announced radical new devolutionary plans that he says could mean 10,000 new council houses every year are built by local authorities.

The Budget

Fairer taxation, support for families, investment: Compass welcomed Alistair Darling’s budget.

But Jeremy Corbyn said while the budget contained some encouraging remarks, it wasn’t exactly a people pelaser.

Labour is now the party most trusted to fix the economy by 6% — a full reversal of last December’s position.

Darling will stay as chancellor after the election if Labour wins, the PM promised — now it’s time to put one of our best electoral assets front and centre in the campaign, writes Alex Smith.

Mark Dominik now asks: what kind of growth do we want during the recovery?

Opinion

Our resident Swing Voter says the media has misdefined the British middle class in “What is Middle Britain, anyway?”

A great article by Keith Moran looks back to 1992 — and says it shows there is still real hope for Labour in 2010.

People, party and policy

We can all do our bit: Are you one of 50% of Labour MPs not to have signed up to the British Legion manifesto? Sign up now…

Unite is fighting its corner over the BA staff strikes with a slick new campaign video.

And unions Together crowd sourced a new video: Remembering Tory Rule.

The British “core vote” and “swing vote” may no longer exist, write Anthony Painter and Ali Moussavi, as they launch their fascinating and important new study into the state of the British electorate.

Tory grandee Peter Tapsell tells us his priorities for the next Parliament — all those “pretty girls on the Conservative front bench…”

WATCH: David Cameron completely fell apart in a TV interview about gay rights.

Previous editions of the ShortList

Tributes to Ashok Kumar and Michael Foot — March 21st, 2010.

International Women’s Day with Gaby Hinsliff — March 14th, 2010.

Tributes to Michael Foot — March 7th, 2010.

A future fair for all — February 21st, 2010.

The start of Labour’s online push — February 14th, 2010.

Chris Grayling’s “misleading” crime stats — February 7th, 2010.

“Classic New Labour”: The Ed Balls interview — January 31st, 2010.

Where is George Osborne? — January 24th, 2010.

Causes to Fight For — January 17th, 2010.

Hoon-Hewitt gate — January 10th, 2010.

The Copenhagen climate summit — December 20th, 2009.

The PBR — December 16th, 2009

Brown comes out fighting in PQMs — December 6th, 2009.

The Chilcot Inquiry opens — November 29th, 2009.

The Queen’s Speech — November 22nd, 2009.

Glasgow North East by-election — November 14th, 2009

Blair and Miliband to Europe? — November 8th, 2009.

Europe and the Primary debate — November 1st, 2009

Griffin on Question Time — October 25th, 2009

Tory confused numbers — October 17th, 2009

Conseravtive conference — October 10, 2009.

Labour conference — October 3rd, 2009.

A Britain where everyone has a stake and a say — September 5th, 2009.

Teddy Kennedy: a good and decent man — August 29th, 2009.

Election strategy — August 22nd, 2009.

We Love the NHS — August 15th, 2009.

Green shoots are not enough — August 8th, 2009.

Debating ConservativeHome — August 1st, 2009.

Cruddas and Purnell — July 23rd, 2009.

The Ken Livingstone interview — July 18th, 2009.