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Editorial Articles

Battleground Britain

Forty years ago this month, Harold Wilson led Labour back to power and ejected Edward Heath from Downing Street. It was hardly a resounding victory: Labour won fewer votes but a handful more seats than the Tories, and Wilson was 17 seats short of a majority, forcing...
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Sleeping, not dead

‘There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative party, before anything else – they have a grand sense of where the votes are,’ suggested Enoch Powell at the height of Margaret Thatcher’s unpopularity in 1981. Over the past two decades that sense appears...
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Get the party debate started

The special conference which will meet to debate Ed Miliband’s proposed party reforms in March is potentially the most significant gathering of the Labour party since it met in Wembley in January 1981 and adopted a series of measures which triggered the departure of...
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The limits of populism

For much of the last three decades, leftwing populism has seemed something of a contradiction in terms. Even after Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan departed the political stage, the right retained a powerful hold over much of the traditional discourse of populism:...
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