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Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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‘Hope is as much a message for the Scottish electorate as the UK’s’

Scottish Labour’s new leader stepped onto the conference stage, on Monday, at a moment thick with fatalism. Analysis…

David Martin

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Keir Starmer campaigning for Labour at the 2024 general election.

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‘From Win24 to winning again: the campaign principles Labour should follow’

For just over six years, I led the team in Labour HQ that was responsible for devising and…

Richard Bennett

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Ben Cooper column: ‘Labour can rebuild the middle ground on immigration’

The issue of immigration and asylum dominates British politics. For some commentators, migration is seen as only the…

Ben Cooper

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