Countdown to 2015 Articles

December and, more importantly Christmas, are an extended sojourn where the only politics on offer are that of the family variety. The battles and spoils of the year past recede into an unusual outburst of bonhomie. That and it is always worth seeing Ed Balls dressed...

Weeks of lurid details of sex, drug-fuelled parties, fraternal healings, ‘nightmare colleagues’ and continuing rumblings over allegations of vote-rigging – November was just another month in the Labour party. And yet Labour entered the final month of 2013 in robust...

Glasgow, Brighton and Manchester have all seen the political whirlwind that is the British party conference season travel through their respective city centres in the past three weeks. Now that the banners have been taken down, the last of the thin wine and stale beer...

With 20 months to go until the general election, how has Labour fared in the previous month? Who said August was the silly season? For the Labour leader his month may have begun in farce, as he was duly egged in a south London market, but it ended in anything but. The...