David Talbot Articles

If a week is a long time in politics, then the five weeks Ed Miliband’s energy pledge has dominated British politics represents a whole new time paradigm. He has, as Peter Kellner notes, won the battle – his task now is to win the war. He enters the fray on a sure...

Glasgow, Brighton and Manchester have all seen the political whirlwind that is the British party conference season travel through their respective city centres in the past three weeks. Now that the banners have been taken down, the last of the thin wine and stale beer...

With 20 months to go until the general election, how has Labour fared in the previous month? Who said August was the silly season? For the Labour leader his month may have begun in farce, as he was duly egged in a south London market, but it ended in anything but. The...

As the dust settles from an inconclusive bout of county council elections, which left all, now four, party leaders with much to ponder, eyes flicker to the looming general election two years hence. Before that, though, UKIP seem almost certain to top the poll in the...