5 things we’ve learnt from Patrick Wintour’s account of Labour’s defeat
Today the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour has written an in-depth account of the lead up to Labour’s election defeat.…
General Election 2015
A difficult step
Labour are often accused of being the most tribal of the mainstream political parties. For my money, I…
Labour must offer popular, big-tent politics to reach out to voters in 2020
Victory for the Labour party in 2020 is going to be more than twice as difficult to achieve…
The battlefield in 2020
Last week I looked at the detail behind the General Election results to see what the lessons were…
“We cannot waste this defeat” – Labour launch taskforce to find out why they lost the election
Harriet Harman, Interim Leader of the Labour Party, has launched a ‘Learning the Lessons from Defeat’ Taskforce. The…
Understanding the election result: we mustn’t overdramatise the facts or oversimplify the answers
“Labour’s era may now be over and perhaps it is time for something new”, wrote one commentator in…
The problem for Labour isn’t toxicity, it’s credibility
Polly Toynbee writes today that it would be a mistake for the next Labour leader to ditch the party’s most…
Labour’s problem: a great political product is one thing – selling it is another
Once Labour has a product something the majority want, we think, we’re in with a chance. They lost…
An anatomy of Labour’s defeat
Now that we are a couple of weeks past the initial shock it is time to start looking…
The Labour Party needs a peasants’ revolt, not a palace coup
So we lost a General Election. Rather badly. I start with this uncomfortable observation as it seems already…
