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The autumn statement represents what happens if you adopt the wrong economic policy for the times we live in. For reasons of misguided economics or political priorities, probably both, the government has committed to more years of spending cuts. Meanwhile, though the...

As the polling stations closed on 7 May I remember sitting down after a hard day campaigning to watch the exit polls results come in. My initial reaction was one of disbelief as the BBC announced a possible Conservative majority, and I refused to believe they were...

Last week, I had a conversation in the street with a self-employed landscape gardener. He asked me where I was from and I said the Labour party. He said that ‘that Tony Blair was in the Labour party and earning big bucks’. He said he did not think much of Gordon Brown...

‘Labour lost the last two elections because too many voters saw it as ‘Tory-lite’ and decided they might as well vote for the real thing’, was the narrative born in the months after the party’s general election loss and became one of the main explanations for what...