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Editorial Articles

Hard truths

Last month’s local and European elections bore all the hallmarks of a dress rehearsal for next year’s general election. So what do they tell us about how ready Labour is for opening night in May 2015? In a number of places with key marginal seats – Cambridge,...
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Time for the liberal fightback

The results of elections to the European parliament have proved somewhat unreliable indicators as to how voters will behave in subsequent general elections. David Cameron may have topped the poll in the last set of European elections one year before he entered Downing...
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Home and away

There have been few electoral bright spots for the centre-left internationally since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Social democratic parties in Britain, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Portugal have all gone down to defeat. Unsurprisingly,...
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The federalisers’ moment

Throughout its history the divisions between Labour’s left and right – over issues ranging from nationalisation and public ownership to the market economy, Europe, and defence – have served to disguise a subtler, but no less important, fissure: that between what the...
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Aspiration is the key

Aspiration is the key

Feb 6, 2015 |

Labour needs to be ready to tackle the risk of a rise in interest rates hitting hard-pressed families and respond in a...

The 80 per cent strategy

The 80 per cent strategy

Dec 1, 2014 |

The political establishment is running scared. The United Kingdom Independence party is a phenomenon that it barely...