Editorial Articles

It is just over two years since Ed Miliband greeted the election of François Hollande with the words ‘the tide is turning against an austerity approach’. The new French president, he said, offered a ‘different way forward’ and praised his determination to create a...

In July, when asked how he would deal with Syria’s civil war 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.’ The...

In 1997 Labour’s manifesto contained one, rather vague, sentence about childcare. It would be safe to wager the cost of a year’s childcare (on average, nearly £6,000 for sending a child under two to a nursery for 25 hours a week) that the party’s manifesto next year...

Last month’s local and European elections bore all the hallmarks of a dress rehearsal for next year’s general election. So what do they tell us about how ready Labour is for opening night in May 2015? In a number of places with key marginal seats – Cambridge,...