Welcome to November’s Progress report. This month the report takes a look at the general elections in three of the world’s most influential democracies. Hannah Blythyn assesses the outcome of the Australian general election and Sam Hardy surveys the scene in Spain six months after the surprise election of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero while Simon Alcock and Emily Warren look back at their experiences inside the Kerry campaign in the USA.
Also in this month’s report Philip Newton looks back at his first Labour party conference and Richard Chapman defends MP’s expenses. In the Progress culture section Mark Day and Will Higham review books by Patrick Diamond, ‘New Labour’s Old Roots’, and Steve Moxon, ‘The Great Immigration Scandal’, respectively.