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By Gus Baker / @gusbbaker This month Progress magazine contains a profoundly pessimistic editorial detailing The Stevenage Test. The piece is framed by a picture of a Conservative billboard with the helpful caption "understanding how…
By Luke Akehurst / @lukeakehurst I was at the Progress Annual Conference at the TUC on Saturday for Ed Miliband's speech. I thought it was a useful corrective after a morning session where pollster Deborah Mattinson had presented such a…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Ed Miliband will give his second heavily trailed speech in just two days today, as he seeks to develop some momentum (and some headlines) ahead of his wedding (and therefore temporary break from the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today's Progress speech from Ed Miliband was clearly pitched at the party. Returning to many of the themes he focused on at the leadership contest last summer. There was a reprise of the mea culpa of what…
Ed Miliband will give the following speech to Progress conference this afternoon: Friends, let me tell you today how we are going to win the next election. Three moments in the history of our Party when hope defeated fear. 1945. 1964. 1997…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Tomorrow, Ed Miliband will give his first major speech since the local election results two weeks ago. He'll be using the set piece at Progress conference to try and dispel what he and his team believe are…
By Ian Murray MP / @IanMurrayMP There was an article on LabourList yesterday called, "Why Ivan Lewis is wrong on the economy" by Tom Ladds. Tom clearly hasn't read Ivan Lewis's Progress speech and distorts the few words which were removed…
By Tom Ladds In the week following the local elections, there has been a wide array of interpretations of what the gains mean for Labour. There have been comments that the Conservatives did well considering predictions that they could lose…
By Robert Philpot 'Westminster's anti-intellectualism has softened' reported the Economist magazine approvingly last month. 'Political London has developed a thinking culture of its own, like capitals such as Paris and Washington.' Well, up…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There has been much discussion in recent days over whether the "Purple Book" being put together by Progress to such fanfare over the coming months is a threat to Miliband. Some also have attacked the…
By Luke Akehurst and Johanna Baxter It may well be that when we all get the chance to read them in six months time, the contents of the Purple Book will turn out to be a really positive contribution to Labour's policy review. The reality as…
By Paul Richards / @labourpaul In 1952, a political book appeared in the shops. It wasn't red, or orange, or purple. Neil Kinnock recalls, aged 10, that "a main display window in the Tredegar Industrial and Co-operative Society was crammed…
