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Southern Discomfort Again Articles

Another shot of southern discomfort

Labour’s horror-show relationship with the south continues Here we are again. The Southern Discomfort series, begun in the early 1990s, is now joining Halloween and Friday the 13th as a long-running horror franchise. Policy Network’s Southern Discomfort Again...

Winning nationwide

Last week in the Progress office I was given the task of compiling the names of the leaders of Labour groups on local councils. This served as a depressing reminder of just how few Labour councillors there are, particularly in the south. Too often the council...

Eastern promise

Labour lost badly in eastern England last May. It need not do so again

Southern discomfort on the ground

Southern discomfort is with us again but a broad-brush approach to solving it will only take us so far. Labour failed to entrench its success in the south – opportunities that existed to forge a distinct local Labour offer were foregone in the 1990s and 2000s.