Douglas Alexander MP Articles

At the last election, David Cameron said he thought the television debates were ‘here to stay’ and that ‘it would have been feeble to find some excuse to back out’. But yesterday he tried to exercise a veto to block TV debates and deny them to the electorate. He seems...

It seems commonplace nowadays to claim that Europe will be a big feature of the next election. I do not disagree. But it is not because Nigel Farage says it will be. Or even because David Cameron’s backbenchers want it to be. It will be significant in the next...

In exactly one month it will be referendum polling day, and in two weeks the first postal ballots will be cast. Time is running out for the nationalists to find the ‘game-changer’ they seek. The white paper, the Commonwealth Games, the Bannockburn anniversary: Alex...

Barack Obama’s re-election provides six strategic and organisational lessons for Labour, argues Douglas Alexander When Lyndon Johnson was once asked, ‘What do you do to win elections?’ he replied immediately, ‘You do everything!’ Decades on, and with the votes now...