Barking and Dagenham Articles

Margaret Hodge tells Robert Philpot about the lessons of the ‘bloody difficult’ campaign to drive the BNP out of Barking ‘It is’, says Margaret Hodge, ‘the most important thing I have ever done.’ On a night which offered little cheer for Labour supporters, Nick...

I’m not sure why there is a habit in the Tory party of broadcasting their election strategies. Perhaps it is disinformation designed to spook us. But it usually seems reasonable stuff so we shouldn’t ignore it either as intelligence on their likely moves or to...

After my article calling for action to be taken on the state of private rented accommodation and the effects of the government’s housing reform on London, has Ken Livingstone, with his ‘Fair Rent’ and London-wide letting agency policies, now come up with the answer to...

If you haven’t already made any New Year’s resolutions, here are my suggestions for collective resolutions that the party, from top to bottom, should make: •    Don’t panic. We have turned into a bunch of neurotics who act like headless chickens whenever the polls...