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What’s the key demographic challenge for Labour if it is to win the next election? Scotland? The ‘Red Wall’? No, it’s older voters. If only the over-65s voted, Labour would have lost every election since 1997 – and by increasingly large…
Listening last week to our Shadow Employment Rights Secretary, Andy McDonald, setting out the party’s vision on workers’ rights was a rare, unifying moment for Labour: "A Labour government that will restore to every working man and woman…
Is there a contradiction between a leadership candidate whose number one election pledge was “increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories' cuts in corporation tax and clamp down on tax avoidance” and a leader who is…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week told Conservative conference that the country faced “hard choices”, and committed the government to “balancing the books”. His words echoed those of George Osborne in 2010, who set the UK on a course of…
On the doorstep in the 2015 election campaign a voter is complaining about how their local Sure Start centre has been closed, and how their pregnant sister no longer gets the maternity grant or health in pregnancy grant. You empathise, and…
Amid all the fanfare surrounding Ed Miliband being the first Labour leader to attend the Durham Miners Gala for 23 years, it is easy to overlook the content of what was said at the ‘Big Meeting’. Perhaps the most noteworthy contribution…
The popular myth is that the welfare state props up workshy scroungers, who are – in the words of the Prime Minister – “sitting on their sofas waiting for their benefits”. Instead, today’s welfare state props up wealthy landlords…
On May 3rd voters across England, Wales and Scotland rejected the policies of austerity. In nine English cities voters also rejected the personality politics of mayoral systems. Tony Benn said that politics “should be about policies not…
