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Robert Philpot Articles

Let’s talk about tax

Tomorrow Ed Miliband will make his much-trailed pitch to Britain’s middle classes. Its presentation by some in the media – as a panicked response to Labour’s falling poll ratings – is a little unfair. The plight of the nation’s ‘squeezed middle’ was front and centre...
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A new year’s resolution for Labour

Six months ago, Ed Miliband pledged to end the machine politics that had disfigured the selection of Labour’s candidate in Falkirk, one of the party’s safest seats. Tomorrow, with the passing of the deadline for submissions, the review which Miliband established at...
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‘The 35 per cent strategy is a myth’

Labour is targeting Tory voters and should not be thinking about a coalition after 2015, Michael Dugher tells Robert Philpot and Richard Angell A leading member of Ed Miliband’s general election team has ridiculed suggestions that Labour is pursuing a ‘35 per cent...
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What not to learn from the Bill de Blasio playbook

Last Tuesday, New York City elected its first Democrat mayor in 25 years. Bill de Blasio’s populist campaign, with its focus on inequality and his promise to govern for ‘the 99 per cent’, certainly produced an impressive victory: a thumping 72 per cent of the vote...
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