Labour party conference 2014 Articles

During conference season I chaired a series of fringe meetings held by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy at each of the main party conferences. The topic was how best to achieve regional growth by removing the dead hand of the state. Each...

Ed Miliband did not mention immigration in his leader's speech. But there was plenty of talk about immigration on the fringe, including at the Progress-Migration Matters trust event, Ukip if you want to: How do we make immigration work for Britain? The trouble for...

At last year’s Labour conference, Ed Miliband and Caroline Flint’s announcement to freeze energy bills made the political weather. But a price freeze alone cannot fix the energy problems looming ahead, so what is Labour’s offer beyond the energy freeze? This was the...

In his speech at conference last week, Ed Miliband once again placed housing at the centre of Labour’s general election campaign. He went further, making it a major plank of Labour's long-term plan for Britain. He stated that under Labour, Britain would build ‘as many...