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Peter Kellner Articles

Why I’m against a referendum

Peter Kellner imagines the case Ed Miliband could put —30 March 2015, London. This morning, Labour held its ‘Clause V’ meeting to decide the content of the party’s general election manifesto. This is an extract of what Ed Miliband said. ‘The draft before you rejects...

Majority Rules

In a major new publication, Peter Kellner assesses Labour’s prospects of winning an outright majority in 2015. With two years to go until the general election, he argues Labour must defy history, overcome some awkward numbers, and overcome persistent weaknesses in the...

A class apart?

New polling for Progress shows that working-class attitudes are not what some in the Labour party imagine them to be, writes Peter Kellner Has the time come to reassess the influence of social class on values and voting behaviour? Fifty years ago it was plainly what...

Path to power

The next election may be like no other in recent decades. Peter Kellner outlines how Labour can win it. All Ed Miliband must do to become prime minister is answer three questions correctly. First, what are Britain’s biggest problems? Second, how can they be solved?...