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By Ben Fox Mulling over election results is largely a waste of time and ink and it's about time we drew a line about the winners and losers from 'Super Thursday'. The final verdict on Labour's night has to be that the party overall took a…
By Ben Fox Watching David Cameron perform in parliament or on TV you'd be forgiven for thinking that he was in complete control. Yet this government been a constant stream of policy U-turns and backbench rebellions it has suffered. Whether…
By Ben Fox Brian Duggan's piece on the question of Britain's EU engagement and Sunder Katwala's proposal of an In/Out referendum are very timely contributions to a vitally important debate. Brian is right: the European left is suffering a…
By Ben Fox Labour activists have been given an early Christmas present by that most unlikely of sources - The Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph is using a similar technique to the one it used during the MPs' expenses scandal, a drip-drip of…
By Ben Fox Back in the run up to the 2005 election, Leeds University Radio held a series of four or five programmes on the big issues in the election. I was the Labour-supporting 'pundit' facing off against a Tory and a Lib Dem. Even though…
By Ben Fox As we look at the 'new model' Labour party we want to create to win the next election, the party's link with the trade unions has to be examined again. Even when Labour was raking in multi-million pound donations from business…
By Ben Fox It's probably fair to say that the 2010 Labour leadership contest hasn't been the most exciting campaign ever fought. It's certainly been less fiery than the Tory battles in either 2001 or 2005, but I reckon that's probably…
By Ben Fox Two months after taking Labour's severest beating in terms of vote share since 1983, two senior Labour figures are getting an indecent amount of media attention. But, sadly, not for the right reasons. This is a great shame…
By Ben Fox So, the post-mortems are over and British politics is in unchartered territory. Cameron's Tories dismally failed to win a governing mandate that they had expected to achieve comfortably, Nick Clegg after winning a mere 57 seats…
