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And now it’s official. On 23 February, Germany will go to the polls again, with elections brought forward from late September after the three party coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD) of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Greens, and the Liberal…
Elections in two states in eastern Germany, Thuringia and Saxony provided results which pose a huge challenge to Labour’s sister party, the social democratic SPD of chancellor Olaf Scholz, but also raise important wider questions.
It’s been a pretty desperate few years in relations between the UK and Germany, even though, of course, friction in recent decades is far from unknown: the Iraq war set respective centre-left-led governments at odds and unpicked what had…
In recent years, housing has had a much higher priority in the Labour Party, and a good thing too – the shortage of housing, and particularly affordable housing, is exacerbating inequality, fuelling economic instability, causing recruitment…
There’s sometimes a tendency to talk down Labour’s record on housing in office, though in particular the massive investment in raising the quality of social rented housing was something to be proud of. But a critical area which received too…
By Ed Turner Although things have picked up recently, Labour has had a tough time in local government, falling from over 10,000 councillors in 1997 to under 5,000 now, and with whole swathes of the country without Labour representation…
