Cruddas asks the right questions – I heard them on the doorstep of a swing seat
How did it come to this? That a Labour Party fighting an arrogant, out-of-touch Tory government who failed…
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Jon Cruddas: What we can learn from Labour’s crushing election defeat
Today we publish our Independent Inquiry report Labour’s Future. It looks at why we lost the 2015 general…
Labour was out of touch in 2015, says Cruddas’ final election report
Labour lost the general election because it had “marched away from the views of the country” on key…
John Denham: Labour cannot win in England unless it understands England
It’s widely accepted that General Election activists constantly heard the refrain ‘Labour doesn’t stand for people like me…
Labour has been presented with an opportunity to change the narrative on welfare
The Government’s cuts are dividing society because, in Iain Duncan Smith’s words, they’re “narrowly focused on getting the…
Tories in turmoil as IDS quits over disability cuts
Iain Duncan Smith stunned Westminster on Friday night by quitting the Cabinet over George Osborne’s plans to slash support…
Corbyn and his MPs rally in opposition to typical Tory Budget
Jeremy Corbyn hated this Budget. Of course, leaders of the Opposition generally don’t like Tory Budgets, but the…
Why do the Tories claim income is not an indicator of child poverty?
Seventy years ago, the National Insurance Act was placed on the statute book. It is the foundation-stone of…
2015 election verdict: Too tough on welfare and the deficit, and too much like the Tories
Labour stances on welfare and the deficit going were too tough going into May’s general election – but…
My cross-party alternative to Osborne’s tax credit cut protects the poorest
George Osborne may unwittingly have gifted Labour a detonator with which it can blow up the Tories’ 2020…
