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‘You’re right about the NHS, but I can’t vote for you.’ For the last 10 days of the election I sat in my office everyday calling undecided voters. I had some great conversations, but when it came to the punchline too many people were not prepared to put their trust in...

Not since Marie Antoinette posed as a milkmaid at Versailles has there been such an attempt to create a fantasy world for the rich. David Cameron’s blue-collar conservatism conjures up in the minds of credulous Tories a feudal idyll of faithful retainers. His loyal,...

Labour’s defeat at the 2015 election was severe. There is no getting around that. Before the election many media commentators speculated that the Conservatives might run a '1992 campaign' and perhaps Labour might end up with a 1992 result. It was worse than that. It...

On Sunday, still exhausted and incredibly disappointed, I went for a restorative bike ride along the Bridgewater canal. The bucolic Cheshire scenery was rather marred when I spotted a discarded ‘Vote Labour’ sign floating in the water. All sorts of unhelpful...