Labour’s Election Scorecard 2013
Every year I do a piece looking at what the benchmarks are for Labour in the May local…
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We can be quietly satisfied that we took big steps on the road to victory in 2015
After a week long road trip through the shires of England, thousands of road and rail miles tramped, has it…
Labour are making headway in the South – but the Tories are falling behind in the North
It’s very hard to take a step back and look at how this deluge of results we’re getting…
The whole economy needs investment for recovery
The Tories are in a mess because their economic strategy has failed. Private investment has collapsed, and they…
Labour is beginning to pass the “Pub Test” once again
In Tony Blair’s apocryphal tale, he recounts how it dawned on him that the 1992 election was lost…
The Lib Dems have given up
Aged 8, I coined my basic political philosophy: Labour good, Tory bad, Liberal funny. Now obviously my political…
There is no May Day “M’aidez” – but Miliband still needs help from his Shadow Cabinet
Today is May 1st. International Workers Day. A time to celebrate the hard won gains of the labour…
Labour needs a bigger vision for older people
IDS is encouraging pensioners to give away their benefits presumably because ministers cannot agree on a more coherent approach. To govern…
After WATO: Miliband needs to be brave – and put the economy before the politics
By now, most people in the “Westminster Village” (and most people reading this site), will have heard –…
A shrinking state is a right-wing fantasy
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour Party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying…
