The Week Ahead Articles

Hugh Gaitskell was the original Labour party moderniser. Sadly, he is rarely credited as such. In fact, he is rarely credited at all. For an entity that has often viewed itself as a crusading, near-religious, movement, the party has deified other party greats – none...

Michael Ashcroft’s mission began on 2 May 1997. Labour’s landslide victory left his beloved party bereft after 18 years in government. Listless, policy-less, mostly leaderless – thus began the Conservatives convoluted attempts to regain high office. Lord Ashcroft,...

After Andy Murray was reduced to tears in SW19 yesterday, the drama switches firmly back to SW1 this week with a plethora of parliamentary battles over Lords reform, the EU and the future of British banking. First up is Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of...

The press is awash with banker-bashing this morning as news filtered through late last night that the Barclays chairman, Marcus Agius, had announced his resignation. In a sombre statement on the beleaguered bank’s website, Agius stated that he was ‘truly sorry’ for...