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With 20 months to go until the general election, how has Labour fared in the previous month? Who said August was the silly season? For the Labour leader his month may have begun in farce, as he was duly egged in a south London market, but it ended in anything but. The...

Surely aspiration drives our politics? We aspire for our children to do better than we did ourselves. We aspire for our communities to do well, and we believe the best way of securing all of this is through working together because we achieve more together than we...

How would an improving UK economic performance affect political debate? We might be about to find out. As I’ve noted previously, there have been signs of growth in the UK economy. The past few weeks have supported that view. At the beginning of July the June Markit...

There is one overriding reason why a referendum is necessary: as presently viewed by much of the electorate, the EU is seen as a creature of the political classes. Part of UKIP’s appeal reflects that disconnect. They are seen as the voice of the anti-political class,...