David Axelrod Articles

Labour still needs a proper post-mortem In 1987, following an election when Labour won the campaign but lost the election, Philip Gould and his team presented an assessment of Labour’s defeat to a joint meeting of the shadow cabinet and the National Executive...

We need a message of hope backed up by credible policies With the European and local elections out of the way, we are on the runway to the general election. If you look around the zombie parliament over the next few months and wonder where everybody is, they are...

Why are we making promotional videos about our advisers, asks Matt Forde I feel so bad for saying this, but I can’t believe we put out a video announcing that David Axelrod is now advising the Labour party. Or, more to the point, I can’t believe that David Axelrod put...

In his weekly column, the Last Word, John McTernan shares a dozen reasons to be cheerful. One, Labour has had a poll lead in YouGov for 29 months. Of course, no one pays attention to the day-to-day polls. The only poll that matters is the general election etc. etc....