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As a Labour activist I have had a spectacularly unsuccessful six months. First, we got whipped at the May general election. The parliamentary candidate I was campaigning for in Battersea – a strong local candidate with a great local party – got battered. Then I threw...

Today’s Conservative party annual conference was addressed by home secretary Theresa May in a long-anticipated speech on immigration. Many expected this to set out her stall as a potential successor to David Cameron. But what we heard was not very promising. May’s...

George Osborne’s major announcement on business rates – pledging localisation of business rates by 2020 – is not an original Tory government idea. Neither is it a Labour opposition idea – we only promised to give back the proceeds of growth. It is a big Labour local...

Luciana Berger’s appointment as minister for mental health with shadow cabinet rank and her commitment at the Progress meeting on dementia is the best hope yet of getting much-needed action to tackle this health timebomb. Jeremy Hughes, Alzheimer Society chief...