Ed Miliband hasn’t just changed the key economic argument, he has set the Tories a trap
When Ed Miliband stands up to respond to George Osborne’s Budget today, he will broadly make an argument…
Sunny Hundal
Why criminalising abuse of our soldiers is a dangerous idea
This weekend Ed Miliband made a fairly quiet announcement, after a trip to Afghanistan, that Labour would make…
Miliband’s focus on ‘cost-of-living’ is more radical and broader than most realise
At an event on changing attitudes to poverty recently, a colleague remarked that the Labour Party had almost…
Sorry Len, Labour shouldn’t rule out a coalition with the Lib Dems
The Labour leadership must rule out a coalition with the Lib Dems, said Len McClusky on Newsnight last…
Labour has to make climate change as toxic for Tories as Section 28 was
There are some odd parallels between arguments Conservatives use now against action on climate change, with what they…
Labour is failing to represent a new generation of ethnic minorities
Not long after he became Prime Minister, Gordon Brown faced a key test of his leadership in 2007:…
It’s time Miliband ignored Labourites who can’t stand left-wing populism
For years it was always the left of the Labour party that was criticised for ignoring public opinion…
Why intervention in Syria is necessary: a response to the critics
I said in my LabourList column last week that we will look back and regret not intervening in…
One day we will look back and regret not intervening in Syria earlier
In the deep recesses of Britain’s security services, a debate is taking place on exactly how many British…
Where Labour and the Left got it wrong on immigration, and how to fix it
In a manner of weeks, I’ve found myself in the odd position of agreeing with Margaret Hodge and…
