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There is nothing inevitable about Labour’s unpopularity with older voters, writes James Morris  When I started doing research for the Labour party in 2003, every focus group was with C1C2 25-55-year-old swing voters. Until, one day in late 2004, my manager asked me to...

We need to debate spending priorities, not just the size of the state Since the general election of 2010, debate has raged about the appropriate size and scope of the UK state. The most ideologically driven chancellor in modern British economic history has chosen to...

Labour’s proposal to cut winter fuel allowances for higher-rate taxpayers suggests we may be joining the Tories and Liberal Democrats in dismantling the inheritance of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and William Beveridge – at the top of a slippery slope towards a US-style...

Public spending decisions will be painful for Labour but could also improve the party’s credibility Unless you have more faith in George Osborne’s ability to run the economy than the official forecasts, you have to assume that whoever wins office in 2015 will inherit...