Polly Toynbee Articles

In a week in which even deeper future cuts to welfare have been announced by Cameron, the publication of Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee and David Walker seems particularly timely. With less than 100 days to go to the 2015...

While attention is rightly focused on Scotland at the moment, a few rumblings over the future of devolution in England have been occurring and look likely to increase in volume after this week. A discussion about localism has barely started - a couple of reports...

Labour needs to remember its considerable achievements in power, believes Giles Radice When on the morning of 12 May 1994 the tragic news broke of John Smith’s death, it became almost immediately obvious that the charismatic shadow home secretary, Tony Blair, then...

Labour’s had a bit of a polling shock. A Tory lead has been a bucket of cold water in the face of Labour’s optimists, who have been talking for the last few years about a progressive realignment, an emerging Labour majority of loyalists, the young, and former Liberal...