Ed Miliband Articles

How to measure Labour’s progress over the next 12 months Some historically minded psephologists apply the trends of the past, and produce models that predict Tory recovery and Labour decline: few oppositions win from the poll share Labour enjoys. For Labour’s...

The way you win elections is to understand the deep worries that the electorate have for themselves and their families. Having understood their concerns you then develop policies that will help them. It sounds simple; getting both of these things right is hard. That...

When faced with difficult political decisions I always ask one question: WWKD? What would Ken do? No, not Ken Livingstone, though I have never met a better, shrewder operator on the left, but Ken Clarke. A man who came up with GP fundholding on a beach in Spain. A...

The recruitment of David Axelrod was Douglas Alexander’s coup. To get the biggest name in the Obama campaign on board for Ed Miliband was the first fruit of his appointment as Labour election coordinator. That appointment was a while coming. Both Alexander and Michael...