campaigning Articles

This week Ed Miliband announced that between now and May the Labour party would speak to four million voters. Having those four million conversations means one thing, hours on the door in key seats across the United Kingdom. Campaigning is something that Labour...

Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York who sadly passed away last week, famously said politicians ‘campaign in poetry, but govern in prose’. Yet on Monday when the main parties marked the start of their general election campaigns, it seemed like both were firmly...

0.7 per cent. Ask my friend Ally McGovern MP why this is an important figure. Here is what she will say: first, it is one of our proud legacies from our time in government: Labour’s overseas aid promise to the poorest communities in the world now going through...

Before last year I had not really been involved with the Labour party. I had not knocked a single door, attended any events or engaged with other members. At the time, paying my membership fees and sharing the same values seemed enough. Yet now, in my second year at...