Peter Watt Articles

Traditional campaigning techniques have run their course.  We need to try something new, argues Peter Watt As a model, voter identification has served Labour well over the years. At its most basic, we aim to find our supporters, and theirs. We can then target...

The local elections showed voters tiring of party politics but not personalities There were two big winners on 3 May. Not Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson but ‘disenchantment with party politics’ and ‘politics with a personality’. The results were clearly great for...

So there’s not much money to spend and further cuts still to make if the deficit is to be dealt with. And anyway the electorate aren’t all that keen on the government spending as much as they do. You can add to that the nagging fear of many that Labour will spend too...

Labour should remember who public services are for and champion their cause Labour folk are an understanding lot. Imagine, for instance, if I told a meeting of fellow party members a dark secret about myself. Let’s say that I admitted that I had robbed a post office...