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Curtis McLellan Articles

A win on away goals

In anticipation of the Jeremy Hunt debate today, Westminster reverted into full introspective mode today for PMQs. There are many bad things happening in the world, such as the ongoing Syrian violence and the stormclouds still not receding over the eurozone. There's...

A referendum for the right reasons

It started with a wink and a nudge, the appointment of Jon Cruddas to a major policy brief. It continued with Ed Balls winking even more and a guest appearance by Peter Mandelson. But the news that Labour was considering a referendum on European Union membership has...

The economic mea culpa

I don't know if you have seen the Labour party action plan for family budgets. Or our insistence that the NHS will be the defining issue at the next general election. Well, I'm sorry to tell you, it won't be. In the vein of Hopi Sen's great piece on the Challenge for...

Labour’s David and Goliath lesson

Talk to a Labour activist who was involved in the 2010 general eection and the feeling, from my experience, is generally the same: Labour in that election won the 'ground war'. We managed to stop a Conservative majority, we tell ourselves, by traipsing more streets...