Labour won Tory seats with a stirring campaign – but danger lurks in the detail of both parties’ spending plans
General election 2017 (seats won compared with 2015): Conservatives: 318 (-13) Labour: 262 (+30) SNP: 35 (-21) Lib…
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Corbyn completes spectacular turnaround to post three point lead over Tories
Labour has raced ahead of the Tories in a spectacular new poll. Jeremy Corbyn’s party scored a three…
McDonnell: Labour can govern alone and replace May’s “zombie” administration
Labour could win backing from the small parties to run a minority administration and displace the Tories’ “zombie…
Ian Murray: Humbled Tories must shelve the rhetoric of a “hard Brexit”
If it’s true that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you get out,…
The countryside, Scotland and Jewish Britain – where we lost some key battles and how we can turn it around next time
In the aftermath of a general election that produced an odious right-wing coalition of the DUP and the Tories…
Luke Akehurst: Corbyn deserves credit – now he must banish the entryists and bring back shadow cabinet elections
Seven weeks ago the party looked on the brink of electoral destruction. That wasn’t just something invented by…
Labour veterans, councillors and shock winners who make up 47 new MPs
These are the 47 new Labour MPs elected on a night when the party lost the election but…
Shaky May’s numbers may be enough – but Corbyn should have sounded out minor parties a month ago
First, the basic numbers: there are 650 Commons seats. While 326 is an absolute majority, governing parties normally…
Bean over Britain: Workaholic Ian Murray can keep out the nationalists and pave the way for Scottish Labour recovery
There are some parts of the country where people do not get tactical voting, or the issue of…
The Greens stood aside – now back me in Brighton to help defeat regressive alliance
I am standing in Brighton Kemptown, a seat on the south coast that we lost by just 690…
