Exeter Articles

Anyone who has canvassed in the South West will be familiar with the above words. If you are not in Exeter, Plymouth or Bristol, the perception among local voters is that the West Country is an electoral wilderness for Labour, and is doomed to be as such....

A little while ago I received an email entitled 'the Labour party is opening branches near you'. This was a mistake; I live in Islington North, home of the metropolitan, socialist elite, where there is never been a shortage of Labour branches. (It also has some of the...

Labour has succeeded in the countryside in the past and could do so again with some hard work and imaginative manoeuvres, argues Steve Race Labour speaks for the cities, the Conservatives speak for the countryside: that is the old canard that prevails throughout both...