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Thank you. It’s great to be here – although like everyone I hoped to be coming to this conference under very different circumstances. It has been a sobering week for us all. And I want to begin by paying tribute to my great friend Jim Murphy, following his decision to...

Thank you for very much for that warm welcome. I really appreciate it. Can I echo what John Woodcock said about giving a big thank you. It wasn't for want of a better ground campaign that we lost this election. You worked your socks off and gave your heart and soul....

Hello and welcome to Progress’s annual conference. First of all, I want to thank everybody in this room. Thank you for picking yourselves up off the floor and making this the biggest Progress conference in a decade. And thank you for the work you did on the doorstep...

In November 1988, the Democrat presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, led his party to its third consecutive defeat. In its aftermath, two academics, Elaine Kamarck and William Galston, published a short monograph, The Politics of Evasion, in which they accused...