The Progressive Articles

What bores the Conservative party can stir Labour once more ‘All we hear from [Labour] is poverty, poverty, poverty – la, la, la … It is just boring for Conservative members.’ So once said Liam Fox, outlining the fundamental difference between the two mainstream...

Labour has nothing to say to voters suffering at the hands of antisocial behaviour Tony Blair, fresh from seeing the Queen after winning the 2005 general election with a majority of 66, made a speech in Downing Street outlining the government’s priorities. He listed...

Labour has a list of 106 seats it plans to take next May. It urgently needs to revise it As Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, chief of staff of the Prussian army for more than 30 years, once famously remarked: ‘No plan survives first contact with the enemy.’ Von...

Growing the cake, not slicing it, needs to be Labour’s priority Labour heads into the general election behind in the polls on economic competence. By May 2015, the gap may well be in double figures. No party has ever won being behind on both leadership and its ability...