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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 Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Labour supporters are divided over Ed Miliband's performance as leader - and the percentage of supporters thinking he's doing an "excellent" or "good" job has declined over the last month - 37% of those…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk We're at the beginning of the end - but the end of what? Vince Cable has revealed what many had suspected - that he's unhappy in the coalition - and that he could threaten to use the "nuclear option" of…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergsuonuk The media narrative is set. Ed Miliband has had a "faltering" start to his time as leader, it hasn't been a good start, and he needs to improve. Over at Open Democracy Stewart Weir has successfully…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's a fascinating post from Jonathan Isaby over at Conservative Home that suggests that Tory HQ aren't exactly throwing everything at the Oldham East by-election. Isaby says: "I am detecting increasing…
By Ann Black On the Monday NEC members joined the parliamentary Labour party for their weekly meeting, a first for most of us. Alan Johnson, after a widely praised commons performance, drew attention to his New Statesman article and his…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Much time has been spent recently examining Ed Miliband's use of the "squeezed middle" to describe the people who Labour needs to win over. Over the summer John Healey (who is widely regarded as having…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Speaking to BBC political editor earlier this week, Nick Clegg said that "at least half" of his MPs would be voting in favour of raising tuition fees. Perhaps this was expectation management, but in the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk A leaked Tory policy announcement planning grid, which Guido Fawkes has reported on this afternoon, reveals the true fallacy of the Tory position on "progressive issues". The first entry on the leaked grid…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk After some of the (perhaps less than welcome) interventions from Alan Johnson on tuition fees lately, Ed Miliband has put down a clear marker in the Observer that he sees these fee rises as unacceptable…
By Claude Moraes MEP Germany's Angela Merkel has recently made clear her views on the inevitability of a terrorist attack in Germany. Her remarks come in the run up to the festive season, a time when most countries with existing terrorist…
By Carl Rowlands Whilst in Europe, many social democrats have become pessimistic about their abilities to influence social realities, other parts of the world have been more confidently building a version of socialism for the 21st century…
