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David Cameron’s referendum gamble confronts Labour with a stark choice. It is one that will test the mettle and quality of the candidates seeking the party leadership. For the tactical opportunist, the referendum offers multiple opportunities. Labour can seek to...

Following our crushing defeat there can be few now who doubt that anti-politics, apathy and the rising tide of populism hurt the Labour party more than our opponents. Scotland is clearly a unique and special case but even there it still possible to view our...

For those of us who grew up with a Labour government making a difference to our lives at nearly every step along the way, election defeats and the simple paralysis of opposition feel particularly cruel. The cruelty was not just the realisation that this was a Labour...

By cutting away at tax credits, George Osborne is destroying the prop that kept many middle England families afloat during the recession and faltering recovery. Tax credits – now under threat in Osborne’s £12bn welfare cuts – were Gordon Brown’s great reform operated...