Two in five voters open to voting Labour at general election, poll reveals
More than two in five voters would consider backing Labour at a general election, polling shared exclusively with…
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Harman announces that Labour would “re-examine” the BBC licence fee
Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Harriet Harman has revealed…
Simon Stevens the man at the helm of the NHS – but who is he?
Simon Stevens is not a household name – I suspect many of you won’t have heard of him…
Dennis Skinner’s Queen’s Speech heckle 2014
“Coalition’s last stand.” Perhaps the Beast of Bolsover is a secret X-Men fan.
This is what would be in Labour’s first Queen’s Speech
Today the coalition unveil their (rather meagre) Queen’s Speech. There are some large measures (pensions) and some laudable…
What would you have in your Queen’s Speech?
The final coalition Queen’s Speech is looking a little thin so far – pensions aside – meaning that…
Why Nigel Farage should want Ed Miliband to win in 2015
The panicked call by some Tories to form a pact with Ukip and ‘unite the right’ mirrors the…
Leadership, Mr Cameron, is about action not words
We’ve all been in those meetings where someone enthusiastically volunteers for tasks and then never follows through. You…
Why only radical democratic reform can stop UKIP
Writing in 1895, Keir Hardie protested that the Liberal Party of the era was too obsessed with electoral…
Is supporting the fracking industry a wise move?
Tomorrow, in the Queen’s Speech the government will set out its Infrastructure Bill, which will propose, amongst other…
Grant Shapps derides Jim Messina’s “thing for Obama” campaign
While the hiring of Obama strategist David Axelrod has raised the spirits of many in Labour’s camp, the…
