Labour party conference 2012 Articles

Genocide against Iraq’s Kurds shows that more than words are required in Syria ------------------------- I’ll start in an unusual way – by quoting some lyrics in rock band Extreme's biggest hit – ‘More Than Words’: ‘More than words is all you have to do to make it...

Great speeches do not election victories make. If they did, Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock – whose oratory far outclassed that of their opponent – would have easily defeated Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Nonetheless, the annual address to party conference provides...

There's only one thing harder than remembering a 65-minute speech by heart: writing the policies to go with it. As Labour ministers stepped out of their government cars for the last time in June 2010, escorted from their plush departmental offices with their armies of...

Ed Miliband’s choice of ‘One Nation’ as the theme of his 2012 Labour party conference speech captured the moment. The note-less delivery was excellent and effective, and the concept of national unity has run through the great sporting summer of 2012, typified by ‘Team...