Robert Philpot Articles

In July, when asked how he would deal with the situation in Syria if he becomes prime minister, Ed Miliband echoed his first speech as Labour leader and responded: ‘One of the ways the party has changed since I became leader is that war is now always a last resort.’...

Twenty years after Tony Blair’s election as party leader, Peter Mandelson tells Robert Philpot and Richard Angell why winning the centre-ground is more important than ever Peter Mandelson’s autobiography bills him as the ‘third man’ of New Labour, an indispensable...

Lucy Powell has big ambitions for Labour’s childcare policy, find Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison There is a pram in the corner of Lucy Powell’s small Westminster office. Labour’s shadow childcare minister does not keep it there as a prop. For her, the personal truly...

Politics has to be about more than wringing one’s hands, Stella Creasy tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison It is a bold and unexpected claim. We are in the middle of a conversation which offers little cause for cheerfulness – ranging, as it does, over the financial...