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Big changes are taking place in Ed Miliband’s team before Christmas, as he announced a new Chief of…
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Balls wants to be back in power before 2015. Good.
Last week I argued that Labour should make a “big, open and comprehensive offer” to Nick Clegg. As…
We need to be shaping the debate, not merely responding to it
If a week is a long time in politics, eighty-five weeks in opposition has at times seemed like…
Labour can ensure that all needn’t be lost in the lost decade(s)
Much derided at the time, the phrase ‘squeezed middle’ became the Oxford English Dictionary’s ‘Word of the Year…
Ed Miliband’s Christmas message to the armed forces
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Remember what happened in 2007 and 2008? We had the biggest global financial crisis since 1929. I am…
A pre-Christmas outbreak of cross-party harmony? (Not quite)
What should have been the big day in the spotlight for financial services regulation was rather overshadowed by…
Ed Miliband should challenge Cameron’s preaching head-on
David Cameron told an audience in Oxford – celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible –…
