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Is it time for English local government to be elected by single transferable vote? Gordon Matheson and Joanne Harding debate [column-group][column] YES Last year I stepped down after 17 years as a councillor, including more than five years as leader of Glasgow city...

Will Nigel Farage meet the fate of the SDP, asks Robert Philpot On 26 March 1981, four former Labour cabinet ministers – Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, and Shirley Williams – formally announced the launch of the Social Democratic party. The mood on the day,...

Ed Miliband has easily won conference season two years running. His pitch for Labour to be the party of One Nation has helped to frame the party’s approach to the last half of this parliament. Last autumn he added his theme of fixing broken markets, a notion still...