Labour party conference 2013 Articles

Feeling like a fish out of conference water Well, that was weird. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Labour conference quite like it. Maybe other Progress readers can identify with this, but I felt naughty being there. Almost like I’d managed to blag my way into a pub...

If a week is a long time in politics, then the five weeks Ed Miliband’s energy pledge has dominated British politics represents a whole new time paradigm. He has, as Peter Kellner notes, won the battle – his task now is to win the war. He enters the fray on a sure...

A confession: I do not really ‘get’ conference speeches. Like dubstep, it seems to mean a lot to a great number of people, but it’s all just noise to me. It seems to me, though, that the best guide to how much – or how little – it all meant isn’t in how we felt in the...

Labour’s message for parents on childcare this week is that Britain can do better. Labour has certainly thrown down the gauntlet. With Stephen Twigg (and Yvette Cooper’s) announcement of guaranteed wraparound childcare for primary school children and Ed Balls’ bold...