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When Mark Ferguson published his article nobody should have dismissed his remarks out of hand. It required a response from the Labour Party. Many of you know that the Labour Party does not respond to articles like this. Therefore I’m…
It was an open secret in the Labour Party that for the last year London Labour had been almost entirely subsumed to the Ken Livingstone campaign. Once the campaign ended - win or lose - that would have to change. Sadly it seems that rather…
A couple of weeks ago we took a look at some of the names being linked with a tilt at the Labour nomination for the 2016 London Mayoral race. But it seems that one prominent name may have been missing. The auumption was that after choosing…
The riots which started in London nine months ago shocked the world. At the time, I said that we must not let the future of Tottenham slide out of view as the journalists and TV cameras moved away. Yet that is exactly what the government…
Bristol was the only city to vote in favour of an elected mayor on May 3rd. The party has now announced the shortlisted candidates for the Labour nomiantion - they are: Kelvin Blake - former councillor for Hengrove and Filwood in South…
The ward-level data for the London election came out today and is downloadable here. There's loads of useful info here for organisers, election strategists and psephologists. I thought I'd set the ball rolling on dissecting it with the…
Following last week's London Assembly and Mayoral elections, Labour, Lib Dem and Green assembly members have agreed a "pact" to work together and scrutinise Boris Johnson as London Mayor. Announcing the deal, Labour's leader in the London…
On May 3rd voters across England, Wales and Scotland rejected the policies of austerity. In nine English cities voters also rejected the personality politics of mayoral systems. Tony Benn said that politics “should be about policies not…
We are disappointed that Ken didn’t win, despite leading in the polls nationally we had a clear demonstration that personality politics can affect big city contests. However, Labour has made significant gains on the London Assembly…
As soon as the ballot boxes closed on Thursday, the media talking heads had made up their minds. Labour had lost London and it was all because Ken was much less popular than Labour in the capital. Although the counting had not yet begun…
Mark Ferguson was quick off the mark with his post profiling candidates who could be in the running to be Labour's candidate for Mayor in 2016. The problem is that before we ask who the candidate should be, we need to ask how to position…
It's only 36 hours since the London Mayoral race came to an end, but already thoughts are turning to who might be Labour's candidate next time. As Ken Livingstone leaves elected politics, for the first time in a generation theres a…
