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Over the weekend Kenny Selbie was selected as Labour's candidate in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, replacing outgoing MP Gordon Brown. Selbie, works as an equalities officer for West Lothian Council and has been a councillor for Kirkcaldy…
Lord Neil Kinnock has waded into the debate over Labour's policy offer ahead of the general election and called for an end to internal fights within the party. He said was reluctant to enter into the current conversation but following…
With only a couple of weeks of the Scottish labour leadership contest left, Jim Murphy has received a boost today with the news that former Labour leader Neil Kinnock is backing him. In an email to party members later today, Kinnock will…
John Prescott has used his Sunday Mirror column tomorrow to vent his displeasure with Labour's election strategy, accusing the leadership of being "too timid" with its ambition and relying upon "a core vote strategy". In an uncompromising…
Neil Kinnock was a better Labour leader than Ed Miliband is, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Clarke (who was Kinnock's Chief of Staff) said that "Neil has far, far more qualities than…
This morning there are reports that David Axelrod - currently on day two of his whistlestop UK visit - is planning to revamp Ed Miliband's TV appearances. The Times reports Axelrod: "will try to improve the party’s communications and…
I don’t think I realised, during 1992, how much people would still be going on about 1992 20 years later. But they are. General elections that year on both sides of the Atlantic proved to be turning points in a number of ways, and continue…
It’s time to think briefly about 1992, again. Watching David Cameron’s made-for-television speech in Manchester last week some observed that he was trying to position himself as a kind of John Major figure, in contrast to a Kinnockish Ed…
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By Mark Wickham-Jones Ed Miliband’s One Nation Labour initiative, launched so successfully and dramatically at the 2012 conference, draws heavily on the party’s experience under Neil Kinnock during the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as…
Harold Wilson was a political giant in my formative years. His battles with Edward Heath are my first political memory and I, therefore, enjoyed "Harold Wilson Night", BBC Parliament's retrospective. Interesting parallels with today abound…
I’ll let you into a guilty secret: I’m a sucker for brass bands. As a Yorkshireman who grew up about thirty miles from Durham, and a Labour activist with half my family from South Wales, I am still stirred by the solidarity thing. I…
