Joan Ryan 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...

As Philip Gould put it, the suburbs are not ‘places with great political traditions and dramatic folklore’. Most people who live in the suburbs aren’t interested in politics in the way most Westminster insiders would understand it. What they care about is what...

The theory that Labour should handle the Liberal Democrats with kid-gloves for fear that damaging their vote will inadvertently help the Tories to victory has become increasingly hard to justify. Yet that is what Joan Ryan was essentially getting at in  her article...

Targeting only former Liberal Democrat voters is a recipe for failure, explains Joan Ryan At this year’s local elections the Liberal Democrats suffered another string of humiliating defeats, with their councillor base reduced to below 3,000 for the first time in their...