Brown, Darling, Mandelson on Tories’ economic House of Cards
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour have just finished their first major press conference of the general election…
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National Insurance: Mind your own business
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 38 Degrees has launched a timely new campaign today to help overcome the…
Prosperity or austerity? – 8 in the morning, April 8th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Gordon Brown is to mount what the Guardian calls a “make or…
First campaign poll shows Labour up and Tories down
By Alex Smith UPDATE: YouGov’s tracking poll shows: Con 37 (-3), Lab 32 (nc), LD 19 (+2) A…
New OECD report vindicates Labour’s action on economy
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A new OECD report, out today, predicts that the UK economy will grow…
A bold new politics: Gordon Brown announces plans for Labour’s next stage of reform
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In bold signal of the sort of continued change Anthony Painter writes about…
A Co-operative agenda: Labour’s 42 Co-op candidates
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Co-operative Party has launched a new campaigning manifesto, alongside profiles of the…
The Facebook election: Snap poll of 16,000 users points to hung parliament with significant numbers of undecideds
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 With the online space an ever-increasingly important aspect of campaigning in British politics,…
Mandelson: The case for a Labour government is the strongest for thirty years
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson is about to give a speech to Progress and the Foreign…
Trust and democracy – 8 in the morning, April 7th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * The Guardian reviews the first day of the election campaign. * In…
