Southern England Articles

In the 2009 county elections Labour was wiped from the electoral map in Hampshire in all but one of the 75 divisions. Since then the people of Andover in Hampshire have been left with a county council which is hell bent on rampant privatisation of education, the...

The Labour party loves challenges: 211 seats where we sit in third place, on average 19,000 votes behind the incumbent; just 10 MPs across the south out of a possible 197. The speakers and delegates attending the inaugural Third Place First conference in Reading at...

Labour is now the only party capable of winning across the whole of the country Just like with Barack Obama’s ‘50-state strategy’ in 2008 – where he took his campaign into states where the Democrats had not campaigned in decades – there must be no ‘no-go areas’ for...

Can Labour win in the south?  Yes it can and we proved this in the recent May local election in Rushmoor (the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough in the Tories' Hampshire heartlands). The Labour group gained five seats and now the main opposition party with a group of...