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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Speaking in Edinburgh this morning, Alistair Darling has given a strong speech, highlighting the danger posed by the Tories' lack of judgement on economic policy. Darling said: "The record shows that I was…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Tonight, Peter Mandelson has issued his next state of the race memo to party supporters, urging people to reject the "couple of kids in school trousers" and saying Britain "needs a work horse, not a couple of…
By Alex Smith /@alexsmith1982 Speaking at an event to launch Labour's green manifesto and to rally and mobilise young people in London today, Gordon Brown pledged a new Labour government will: Fight this year for a worldwide climate change…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the day that the economy was shown to have grown by 0.2% in the first quarter, Gordon Brown tried to shift the election campaign back onto economic terms with a speech in Coventry. Taking a firm line on the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ahead of this evening's debate on international affairs, Labour's foreign secretary David Miliband has given a speech on Labour's approach to the European Union at Gloucester College. On the Labour…
Douglas Alexander has given a speech in London this afternoon on the state of the election race so far, in which he said: "Don't get me wrong, this election is still going to be tough for Labour. But we are most certainly in the game, and…
Below is the full text of Gordon Brown's speech at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, where the PM launched Labour's manifesto this morning: -- "In 1997, New Labour asked the country for the opportunity to renew Britain - our…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour's manifesto will be launched tomorrow morning, but it was previewed today in a speech by Ed Miliband at a Sure Start centre in Walthamstow. The full speech can be read below. Highlights include: * More…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In bold signal of the sort of continued change Anthony Painter writes about today, Gordon Brown has signalled Labour's intention to "undertake the most comprehensive programme of constitutional reform in this…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson is about to give a speech to Progress and the Foreign Press Association this morning in which he is due to lay out the case for a new term of Labour government. He will say that rather than…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson has fired up the election campaign proper - thought to begin in the next few days - with a rallying call to Labour activists and a message that the Tories would put economic recovery at risk…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Tony Blair has just finished giving a speech to the Trimdon Labour Club this morning, at the beginning of his forthcoming role in the general election campaign. He criticised the Tories for a strategy of…
