‘Three chords and a different truth: how ‘Strong Labour’ beats the populists’
Populists play their politics like country music: three chords and their truth. Patriotism and renewal. A grieving nostalgia…
Reform UK
‘Labour won’t win back left defectors with squeeze messaging alone’
Joseph McNamara, a 77-year old man living in Gorton, told the Independent last week why he had switched…
A gory night for Labour
So, let’s start with the good news – Reform UK does not have a new MP. Matt Goodwin…
‘Cutting Welsh university funding would be economic vandalism, not reform’
I have spent more than 15 years working in higher education in Wales. I served as an elected…
Labour sees polling boost amid Reform slump in opinion polls
Labour has seen a slight bump in opinion polls over the last few weeks, LabourList analysis can reveal.…
‘Defecting to Reform follows the polls. Answering the great questions of our age follows the people’
When elected MPs defect to Reform UK, they’re making a political statement. But let’s be clear about what kind: they’re following the polls, not…
Labour loses Caerphilly Senedd by-election to Plaid Cymru
Labour has lost the Caerphilly by-election, ending more than a century of near-unbroken dominance in the South Wales…
Caerphilly by-election becomes test of Labour’s resilience amid Reform threat
Since the end of the First World War, Caerphilly has never backed anyone but Labour at a general…
Starmer significantly more popular than Farage in head-to-head polling
Keir Starmer is the more favoured option as Prime Minister in head-to-head polling with Nigel Farage, polling shared…
Labour and the Lib Dems? It’s complicated
The Liberal Democrats are gathering in Bournemouth for their annual conference. There will be the usual speeches, the…
