Alan Middleton Articles

The government’s arguments about the level of cuts possible and carried out by Labour councils are part of a wider trend of careful, political cherry-picking of information.

PROGRESS REVIEW 2010: A collapse in Lib Dem support looks likely to help the Conservatives far more than Labour at the next election, says Alan Middleton of the Governance Foundation.

The coalition’s lack of connection to the lives of ordinary people causes them to fail to see the links between different elements of their social policy. A typical example is that David Cameron’s pet proposal for social housing, ‘bringing an end to social housing for life’, fundamentally contradicts his proposals for the big society.

A collapse in Lib Dem support looks likely to help the Conservatives far more than Labour at the next election, says Alan Middleton of the Governance Foundation.