local elections 2012 Articles

As Philip Gould put it, the suburbs are not ‘places with great political traditions and dramatic folklore’. Most people who live in the suburbs aren’t interested in politics in the way most Westminster insiders would understand it. What they care about is what...

Labour is now the only party capable of winning across the whole of the country Just like with Barack Obama’s ‘50-state strategy’ in 2008 – where he took his campaign into states where the Democrats had not campaigned in decades – there must be no ‘no-go areas’ for...

Can Labour win in the south?  Yes it can and we proved this in the recent May local election in Rushmoor (the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough in the Tories' Hampshire heartlands). The Labour group gained five seats and now the main opposition party with a group of...

Ed Miliband’s tone was exactly right on Friday when he came to the west Midlands to recognise the successes of the council elections. In Birmingham, where Labour had regained control, he spoke of the Labour councillors working every day to repay the trust placed in...