Progress political weekend Articles

We are good at opposition. Be it the bedroom tax or the sell-off of our forests, rarely have we missed a Tory own goal, and the united, assured outrage that our party does so well has put paid to many of the Conservatives’ more radical proposals. This confidence has...

There are two elephants standing in the middle of Labour party HQ. One only quite problematic, the other very much so: Labour’s economic credibility and the dreaded south. The former is unfortunately the hardest to crack. If we can sort these two problems out then we...

The key things that Labour must focus on can be split broadly in two. First, the policy areas that need to be broadcast, and, second, the way in which these policies are broadcast. On policy areas, whether we like it or not, the economy is going to be a huge issue. If...

At a glance, Labour’s road to a majority in 2015 seems both long and steep. We stand today almost four years on from one of our worst defeats since the end of the second world war, having won 258 seats and just 29 per cent of the vote, barely beating the consummate...