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Last night the Telegraph ran a report that suggested Labour could be planning to cut benefits for under-25s who are out of work and not in training. The entire story was based on an upcoming report from the IPPR's influential Graeme Cooke…
There has been considerable interest today in interventions from Rachel Reeves and Tristram Hunt today on their new policy areas. So here are five things we've learned as a result: The policy hasn't changed... Tristram Hunt says Labour…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has discovered how nasty Britain’s 'nasty party', the Tory Party can be. The splenetic, spluttering anger of Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, that man of multiple identities…
Wages are £1,500 lower on average than they were under Labour, according to Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves. In her first speech after returning from maternity leave, the shadow cabinet minister has attacked the…
There's a great deal of interest today in Andy Burnham's Guardian interview with Decca Aitkenhead. Whilst some have painted this as an attack on Miliband, or even a putative leadership bid, I'm afraid that doesn't wash. Andy Burnham makes…
Earlier this week I argued that running a General Election campaign was a job for a professional campaign manager - and that's markedly different from the skillset of the average politician. If Labour is going to take on Lynton Crosby and…
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There's a curious "open letter" to Ed Balls in the New Statesman this week from Anthony Seldon, urging Balls to resign for the good of, well, pretty much everyone in Seldon's opinion. It's tempting to write this off as "Blairite attacks…
Last night David Cameron claimed in a (scripted) Party Political Broadcast that "We are paying down Britain’s debts". That's not true - national debt is actually rising. Fraser Nelson has exposed the...untruth...here. Update: The Prime…
The LabourList Shadow Cabinet rankings for 2012 - as voted for by our readers - are out today. And it's Andy Burnham who takes the 2012 title as the most popular member of Labour's Shadow Cabinet. The Shadow Health Secretary has been at the…
Rachel Reeves was on the Sunday Politics yesterday, and said Labour could hold an EU referendum when Britain's relationship with the Eurozone became clearer. That's a point that Douglas Alexander fleshed out in the Guardian this morning:
