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The only poll that will really matter, Chuka Umunna said rightly at last night’s In Conversation With event chaired by John Rentoul, is the way in which people vote on 7 May 2015. With less than six months to go until the general election, the shadow secretary of...

It seems commonplace nowadays to claim that Europe will be a big feature of the next election. I do not disagree. But it is not because Nigel Farage says it will be. Or even because David Cameron’s backbenchers want it to be. It will be significant in the next...

This is the second annual Small Business Saturday UK. A similar campaign has been running in the United States for four years and has become a national movement backed by celebrities and politicians from Barack Obama to Serena Williams.   Last year, our shadow...

Small Business Saturday is here, and so is the festive season. Hey Little Cupcake is working at full tilt, full of seasonal cakes and festive cheer. We started four years ago, tiny, in the kitchen at home. So tiny that we could not even get a bank loan! From such...