Comment ‘Scrapping social care worker visas is a reasonable evidence-based move’ Today’s attacks on Labour for scrapping care worker visas are over-blown. Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting have taken… Andrew Harrop 12th May, 2025, 10:26 am
Comment ‘Why are the knives out for Bridget Phillipson?’ Keir Starmer, it was recently reported, warned his ministers that they could either ‘be disruptors or be disrupted’. Arguably… Bob Hudson 11th May, 2025, 6:00 am
Comment ‘Australia’s election shows how compulsory voting rewards progressive governments that deliver’ In last Saturday’s Australian election, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) bucked the global anti-incumbency trend,… David Klemperer 10th May, 2025, 6:00 am
Comment ‘Candidate selection delays cost Labour in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’ Labour’s success depends on early and visible campaigning. In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, delays in candidate selection cost us… David Landon Cole 8th May, 2025, 2:26 pm
Comment ‘We can’t just target Reform or Green voters. Here’s how we target both’ The clear message from last week’s elections was this: our voters’ lives are unaffordable, and they want change.… Jeevun Sandher 6th May, 2025, 4:27 pm
Comment ‘More welfare cuts would show we’re not listening to what voters are telling us’ As last week’s results showed, the consequences of the government’s plans to cut benefits for disabled people are… Steve Witherden 6th May, 2025, 2:59 pm
Comment ‘Labour is right to revisit winter fuel. But it needs a wider reset of messaging’ This is not an article about economics – nor is it an article about fiscal policy. This is… Ed Dorrell 6th May, 2025, 12:57 pm
Comment ‘Labour must expose the gap between Reform’s local ambition and ability’ So the results are in, and we now have 677 new Reform councillors, and ten new Reform administrations… Eden Kulig 6th May, 2025, 6:00 am
Comment ‘FPTP: Bad for Tories, bad for Labour, bad for democracy’ When the results of the local and mayoral elections have been fully analysed, no doubt there will be… Sandy Martin 5th May, 2025, 6:00 am
Comment Local elections: ‘We should have performed far better than we did’ As ballots continue to be counted from May’s local elections, there will be a countless number of thinkpieces… Minesh Parekh 5th May, 2025, 6:00 am