Comment Labour has nothing to lose in Eastleigh and should throw the kitchen sink at it Eastleigh wouldn’t be at the top of my list of seats where I’d be pleased by the prospect… Luke Akehurst MP 5th February, 2013, 12:19 pm
Comment Oh dear. Oh dear. Owen Jones I like Owen. He is a very bright, personable and decent chap. In terms of the Labour Hard… Luke Akehurst MP 22nd January, 2013, 8:52 am
Comment A gesture of great political and organisational self-confidence The list of 106 target parliamentary constituencies for the next General Election that Labour released last week makes… Luke Akehurst MP 15th January, 2013, 4:20 pm
Comment PCC elections: How Labour’s vote changed – and the swing from the Tories to Labour I’ve noticed that no one seems to have calculated the notional change in the Labour vote between the 2010… Luke Akehurst MP 26th November, 2012, 5:40 pm
Comment Don’t listen to the siren voices of abstention The Guardian’s John Harris is a chap with strange politics. He purports to be a man of the left… Luke Akehurst MP 6th November, 2012, 12:55 pm
Featured We need to avoid appealing to an imaginary radical working class vote The newspapers at the end of last week presented us with two apparently unrelated stories that are critical… Luke Akehurst MP 30th October, 2012, 9:10 am
Comment A highly unpredictable set of elections Now that nominations have closed for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections we can have a better stab… Luke Akehurst MP 22nd October, 2012, 3:07 pm
Comment See you on Saturday? I know a lot of Labour activists will be too deeply involved in the elections due on 15th November… Luke Akehurst MP 16th October, 2012, 12:31 pm
Comment Conference needs to change – so split it in two I’m a Labour Party Annual Conference addict. I’ve been to all except two of them in the 20… Luke Akehurst MP 8th October, 2012, 3:47 pm
Comment A conference without fireworks – and this is a good thing Usually I would be writing a column at about this point, a week before Labour’s Annual Conference, setting… Luke Akehurst MP 24th September, 2012, 5:08 pm