City Articles

Labour must avoid complacency about victory in next year’s London mayoral race, warns Claire Kober That moment at 10pm on 7 May 2015 will be etched on the hearts of Labour activists for decades to come. It was the moment that exit polls indicated we were about to...

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...

Southwark’s Labour council is bringing in a pioneering £3m Youth Fund – to help young people stay in education and get a job. Young people tell me the goal posts have moved. They have played by the rules – worked hard at school, got their grades. They expected – and...

You have to assume that Osborne was gripped by a cold, clammy sweat when he stood to deliver his Autumn Statement yesterday, but as ever there are two types of bad news – political bad news, and real bad news. This was the former. There was nothing in the OBR’s...