Ed Miliband Articles

We're really only seven months away from the launch of the general election campaign. Of course, it's nine months chronologically but with summer holidays in August and Christmas and New Year you effectively lose two months of that. The next period is going to be...

There is a time and a place for candid public advice to the leader's office about how they should be running their comms/policy/electoral strategy. The time: midnight. The date: 31 June. The place: the land of Far, Far Away. That's right. There is absolutely no...

One of the biggest surprises of my political life was walking into the count for Waveney’s  2013 county council elections. In the midterm of a Tory government I had expected that Labour would win all eight of the Lowestoft wards, all won by the Tories in the disaster...

There was something deeply depressing about the headlines on teaching British values in our schools this weekend. Not the idea itself, though most teachers have presumably been asking what exactly the government thinks they do all day if not that. Rather, it was...