‘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,…
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‘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…
‘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.…
‘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…
‘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…
‘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…
‘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…
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…
‘We know people want change. Labour needs to make it’
People want change. That’s what they voted for last summer when they voted Labour. The manifesto on which…
Local elections: ‘Four yardsticks for how Labour did in wake-up call election’
Every year since 2011, I have written a preview of the local elections and a scorecard after the…
