election 2010 Articles

Every time Labour loses a general election, it does worse the time after. 1983 was worse than 1979, and the same is true of 1955 following Attlee's 1951 defeat. The only time we bounced straight back was in 1974 and that was on a lower share of the vote than the one...

The next election may be like no other in recent decades. Peter Kellner outlines how Labour can win it. All Ed Miliband must do to become prime minister is answer three questions correctly. First, what are Britain’s biggest problems? Second, how can they be solved?...

Would Labour gain more by targeting Liberal Democrat or Tory voters? A new study by Lewis Baston sifts the evidence Over the summer a debate took place within Labour circles about electoral strategy. Put simply: where should the party be focusing its energies in...

Labour will capitalise on the coalition’s troubles only if it builds a broad coalition of voters Not since the summer of 2007 when, for a brief moment, Gordon Brown appeared on the verge of securing a fourth Labour term, has David Cameron’s leadership of the...