PPC Profile: Ruth Smeeth
Full Name: Ruth Smeeth Age: 29 PPC for: Burton & Uttoxeter Selection Result: 70-41 Member of the Labour…
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UK Parliament: Change we can believe in?
By A Supporter When Barack Obama positioned himself as ‘change’ we could believe in, we believed him. Indeed,…
That stirring
From @LabourList In last week’s LabourList editorial There is only dialogue we said events such as those recently…
Who’s ahead? The battle over who’s most self-important
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last night, I attended an event to discuss who is winning: the commentariat…
Now we have Mr Bercow, it’s time for our MPs to be bold
By Kathryn White So, the man from Buckingham won it. As a local (from neighbouring Aylesbury), I have…
The Sunder Katwala interview
Sunder Katwala is the General Secretary of the Fabian Society. He met Alex Smith on Saturday, 20th June,…
Gordon’s Constititutional Reform Programme: some snags
By Brian Barder In his statement in the House of Commons on 10 June 2009, the Prime Minister…
Bercow: an average speaker for an average House
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I am sceptical of the election of John Bercow as Speaker. I find…
The Conservatives’ new friends in Europe
By Mary Honeyball MEP During the recent election campaign I warned about the Conservative Party flirting with extremists.…
Hope in the marginals?
By Mike Ion A recent ICM survey of 192 Labour-held marginals suggested that Labour is set to lose…
