party funding Articles

I ‘listened’ to Ed’s big speech last week via Twitter in Amman, Jordan. Quite rightly it got strong support and was acclaimed as a big and brave move. There has been much commentary on it, so I want to focus on one thought that emerged for me – not least because of...

As temperatures soared across the UK, this week’s PMQs was also a sizzler, heated in its own right.  Surrounded by a wall of noise, Ed used his questions to take the lead on party funding reform.  Yet again the PM ducked responsibility and continued his approach of...

Tony Blair may be the only man to win a parliamentary majority in the United Kingdom for the last two decades and one of just two prime ministers who can unquestionably be called ‘great’, but he was a sub-par party reformer. Samuel Coleridge wrote of George Canning...

If Ed Miliband is serious in his claim that this will be a 'one-term Tory government' as he asserted in the Guardian this weekend, then an alternative Queen's speech is not only desirable but necessary. As we approach the halfway point of this parliament, Labour must...