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David Chaplin Articles

It’s the exit, stupid

As the decade-long mission in Afghanistan comes to an end, now might be the time to start asking what the lessons are from the Nato mission for future humanitarian intervention efforts and specifically how important it is to have an exit plan for future mission...
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Should Labour support a second Falklands?

First off, I’d like to pay tribute to the well-argued and thoughtful views that Alex Bigham has set out in this column for the past three years. I’m really pleased to be picking up where he left off. Alex helped keep foreign affairs on the party’s agenda during the...
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Primaries: what works? Report from Liverpool

The debate about how Labour should select candidates to fight elections has been raging for years and it’s not new to hear conference delegates bemoaning selection procedures as anarchic, cumbersome, or biased. But since Progress and others began making the case for...
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Ed’s four tasks for conference

1.       Offer a clear message to the country about growth and jobs It’s not surprising that the economy is still the biggest worry for people in Britain. Slow growth, poor job prospects, pay freezes, rising households costs, stalling investment in new jobs and small...
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