Ed Miliband Articles

The local and European elections do not suggest Labour is on course to win the general election, argues Peter Kellner There is a case for Labour optimism. It goes like this: Labour could lag the Tories by three points in the popular vote and still be the largest...

Polls go up and polls go down. This true, useful mantra for politicians is only used when the polls go down. Labour politicians found themselves saying it rather a lot before last month’s elections. The nervousness this engendered was repressed, but only barely. In...

What can we say about last week’s elections? The key test for any party is: how well are we doing where we need to gain seats? So look at the Tories. In the key marginal seats they need to defend –Crawley, Croydon and Amber Valley – they lost. And in the seats they...

Last month’s local and European elections bore all the hallmarks of a dress rehearsal for next year’s general election. So what do they tell us about how ready Labour is for opening night in May 2015? In a number of places with key marginal seats – Cambridge,...