election 2010 Articles

Individual voter registration could signal a slow devastation of our democracy On election day in 2010, I was knocking up in Figges Marsh in my constituency in south London when I came across a group of teenage boys. Egged on by his mates, one of them shouted over...

George Osborne is planning to use the eurozone crisis to escape his record. Can Labour stop him? A paradox rests at the heart of Labour’s struggle to rebuild its economic credibility. In March 2010, on the eve of the general election, the party was still managing –...

During much of the 1980s, for most of the time, the Old Right did what the right has traditionally done. They supported the leader, though in this case often through gritted teeth. Kinnock and the Old Right were not natural bedfellows. They helped deliver a Labour NEC...

There were constituencies up and down the country which bucked the trend and performed fantastically well for Labour in 2010. Gisela Stuart in Birmingham Edgbaston and Andrew Smith in Oxford East are just two examples. And our team in Barking triumphed over Nick...