LabourList Articles

If psephology is the study of voters and elections, the left increasingly specialises in pseudo-psephology: the study of voters that do not exist and elections that never happened. The first and most popular example of this is the 1992 election: a closely-fought...

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee proved to be a resounding success. For anyone near the river on Sunday, great roads such as the Strand and Whitehall became impassable for traffic and people from across the UK and indeed the world enjoyed the celebrations. Tributes poured...

‘What a snotty so-and-so. She seemed to say that she shouldn’t stack shelves because she was too intelligent.’ That was the reaction of Iain Duncan Smith, secretary of state for work and pensions, to one of the critics of his ‘work experience scheme’. Ministers and...

I’m not privy to what appeared on Labour’s media grid at the start of the week, but I doubt it included John Prescott telling a fellow Labour peer to ‘bugger off’ following an article in the New Statesman which appeared to attack the Labour leader, or by a massive,...