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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk The latest attack from the Tories on Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper has been covered in the Sunday Times today (£), as Andrew Bridgen MP (named on Wednesday by ConservativeHome as a "trainee attack dog")…
By Tom Miller / @tommilleruk 5%. 3%. These are the numbers that Labour found itself ahead by in polls announced on the 16th and 18 of November, by Yougov and Ipsos MORI respectively. The latter was the highest result Labour has achieved…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Speaking on the Today Programme, Yvette Cooper said the need for a law requiring councils to tackle social deprivation was more acute in light of spending cuts and criticised the government's decision to…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk After topping the LabourList/Left Foot Forward/Liberal Conspiracy shadow cabinet survey today, Yvette Cooper is now the bookies' favourite to be the next shadow chancellor - although her husband Ed Balls…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk The results of the LabourList / Left Foot Forward / Liberal Conspiracy shadow cabinet survey are in - and show the scale of the task that candidates will face if they are to be elected. The survey implies…
By Daniel Blaney By putting such a daft question to Harriet Harman during Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour Party Conference, David Miliband has already demonstrated why the Labour Party was right to elect his brother. What was David doing…
By Peter Kenyon / @peterkenyon A media blitz this weekend here, here and here with Jon Cruddas at the forefront of calls for the election of a Labour Party chair (all neatly parcelled on LabourList) have got me wondering: what has been…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Flexible working could benefit employees and the economy says Ed Miliband, in a policy that is reminiscent of of the French 35 hour week.... * Three-quarters of government cuts will fall on women, Yvette…
by Jennifer Painter / @jenpainter In an article in today's Guardian Yvette Cooper defends her decision not to stand in the Labour leadership race, writing: Ed, always my strongest supporter, said he'd back me and stand aside if I wanted to…
By Stephen Gummer I don't think she flounced. In fact I'm not entirely sure what flouncing out of the Cabinet would look like. But there is little doubt that Caroline Flint's resignation from the cabinet last week did little to cover…
