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Last week, I had a conversation in the street with a self-employed landscape gardener. He asked me where I was from and I said the Labour party. He said that ‘that Tony Blair was in the Labour party and earning big bucks’. He said he did not think much of Gordon Brown...

On Monday Ed Miliband launched Labour’s new industrial strategy, A Better Plan for Britain’s Prosperity. This document makes clear that voters in May will have a clear choice between competing visions about how our economy can be successful in the 21st century. The...

There are good reasons Labour has been reluctant to talk about England. More than any other party it has been unionist and has support throughout the kingdom. The generosity of the settlement, in which Scotland has greater representation and money, was not something...

A new agenda for Labour The crash of 2008 remains a watershed for New Labour’s political economy. The reliance on the financial sector and public administration as the twin drivers of growth was revealed as incapable of generating the value necessary for a competitive...