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I hate it when Labourlist's Editor asks me to write about stuff where my response is emotional rather than analytical. This is one of those occasions. The Scottish Independence Referendum is a very weird thing to watch from Oxfordshire. On…
For these past three years, the referendum has put everything but the constitution on hold in Scotland politics. But one month from today we will go to the polls. Postal votes go out in less than two weeks. The so-called game-changers for…
A substantial number of potential UKIP voters have voted Labour, have regarded themselves as ‘Labour people’ in communities that saw themselves as Labour. So how do we win them back? It can be hard to be told ‘I used to be Labour but you…
Recently I’ve been attending a series of Young Fabians events that look at the role of patriotism and national identity in Labour’s One Nation vision. This discussion could not be better timed. As support for UKIP’s anti-immigration and…
The story ran on Saturday, when much of the country was fixated on England’s first game in the World Cup. The story ran on the first left-hand page of The Guardian’s main section, a notorious “graveyard” slot in any paper where stories can…
Media management is a complex business, and perhaps it's one that I'll never entirely understand. There are political connotations and considerations to every decision, and every opportunity must be weighed up in terms of risk and reward…
As is entirely predictable, the post local elections analysis has focused on ‘what on earth is Labour to do about blue collar voters’? There is a terror that the movement of Labour’s ‘traditional support’ to the no voting party or right…
‘Rather than dividing the right, Ukip has divided the left and cut Labour off from the struggling voters it seeks to champion,’ wrote Matthew Goodwin and Rob Ford last week. It’s a bold claim and certainly challenges the conventional wisdom…
Today we mark two significant anniversaries: the twentieth anniversary of John Smith’s death and the fifteenth anniversary of the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament. John Smith was a giant of the Labour Party. And that wasn’t just…
2015 has the potential to be an election on par with 1945 and 1979 - one that ushers in a new era and breaks with an old consensus. Attlee’s post-war consensus was accepted by left and right alike and held together until Thatcher’s entry…
