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Luke Akehurst Articles
‘No illusions!’
Labour’s moderates need to vote and campaign ‘for Ken – with no illusions!’ I am referring of course to the old...
Could UKIP help Labour?
The rise of UKIP to nine per cent and third place in the opinion polls ahead of the Lib Dems in the opinion polls for...
Cameron should try a dose of genuine multiculturalism
The timing, of course, was a major part of the problem, but also in a way unavoidable. It seemed completely crass for...
Exposing the far left
I want to make it clear that 95 per cent of the British left are certainly responding to opposition in a way that is a...
Workers for Labour
This isn't about his stance on reducing the deficit. Personally I am a bit closer to Ed Balls' position and was...
A tale of two conferences
I have to confess I wasn't at either, as I was visiting my family in Kent. But I was able to follow the mood at the...
Mapping party fortunes
Apologies at the start if this post is more than a little geeky... One of my hobbies is collecting books about past...
AV and the PLP
That's quite remarkable given that the PLP isn't a representative sample of Labour opinion on this issue for the...
National challenge
For most of our history, we have been strong in urban areas and former industrial regions but weak in most of rural...
Labour’s local government boost
This broke a long downhill trend in the number of councils we control and the number of Labour councillors. This is...
Tackling the Lib Dem threat
Until relatively recently, Labour found it fairly easy to campaign to beat Tory opponents, but in fights against the...