Glasgow Articles

Charles Kennedy is never likely to figure in the pantheon of Britain’s greatest postwar politicians. Under his leadership, the Liberal Democrats became a byword for cynical political calculation: their 2005 offer to the electorate was less a manifesto, more a shopping...

Every election campaign is a learning process. Some lessons are enjoyable and some are hard to take. Labour’s result in Glasgow, and indeed across Scotland, on 3 May is firmly in the enjoyable category as we began to put into action some of the lessons we learned from...

The local elections of 2012 were a considerable success for Labour, and – without lapsing into complacency or triumphalism – Ed Miliband can take a little time to savour that success. The number of seats and councils gained was above the upper end of respectable...

With election season upon us, the Easter parliamentary session is due to come to a close on Tuesday afternoon with the 17th century ceremony to prorogue the current parliament. This is the formal name given to the end of one parliamentary session and the state opening...