Michael Heseltine Articles

To win an overall majority Labour must break with tradition and court the left behind voters of the deep countryside, argues Christabel Edwards  In October 1992 Michael Heseltine, then secretary of state for trade and industry, announced the closure of thirty of the...

Elections are always about the future. Tony Blair emphasised this point in his Philip Gould Lecture, perhaps because it was a reminder of Gould’s own relentlessly forward-looking politics. Yet an accounting is needed too. Because for the Labour party, Blair is now in...

It is the stuff of nightmares for Labour, but what if David Cameron wins next May? Hopi Sen assesses the Tories’ plans Think about the Tories winning next year. David Cameron emerging from Downing Street, wreathed in smiles. A Dimbleby intoning the words ‘Conservative...

Ed Miliband's speech today setting out the emerging conclusions from Andrew Adonis' review of the jobs and growth agenda is another welcome indication that the Labour party recognises that uniform, centralised, and input-driven national programmes run from Whitehall...