Budget 2024: What is Labour’s stance on key Tory claims and policies?
Labour leader Keir Starmer has called Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2024 Budget the “last desperate act of a party…
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‘Labour’s poll lead hides a base split on net zero, immigration and trans rights’
That Labour will win the next election is, as political predictions go, something of a safe bet. With…
‘Labour needs more excitement and hope to motivate voters – look at 1997’
Speaking recently Claire Ainsley, Labour’s former Policy Director whose seminal book “The New Working Class” identified the voters…
‘Workers’ pay relies on business success – Labour must be comfortable with it’
“It’s not 1997 anymore,” was a phrase regularly heard by those of us who have spent much of…
Changing face of Labour: 2 in 5 current supporters didn’t back the party in 2019
Two in five voters who say they now back Labour did not vote for the party in 2019,…
Cruddas book review: ‘Intriguing spin on party tradition, but a pamphlet would do’
Jon Cruddas has written a book. It’s titled A Century of Labour, and it aims to trace the…
‘Labour will put country before party with our five national missions’
A year ago today, Keir Starmer set out a bold, new plan for mission government. Five ambitious, long…
Sunak loses more 2019 Tory support as Starmer leads poll on 17 leadership traits
Rishi Sunak trails Keir Starmer in public opinion on 17 leadership traits, including creativity, pragmatism and truthfulness, according…
By-election wins: ‘No battleground seat can be taken for granted – not one GE vote’s been cast’
After a testing week, Labour has come roaring back with two thumping byelection wins in Kingswood and Wellingborough,…
Keir Starmer Scottish Labour speech highlights: ‘The power to build a new Scotland is in your hands’
Labour leader Keir Starmer has told Scottish voters “the power to build a new Scotland is in your…
