Third Place First Articles

It conjures up a curious mix of feelings to see a list of Labour’s key targets for the 2015 election – excitement for the campaigns, despair for how close we came to winning some in 2010. Here is our path back to power laid out in 106 battleground seats, most of which...

Third Place First was founded in the 1990s to encourage more campaigning in areas where we were not the holder or runner-up in the local parliamentary seat. Seats were sometimes winnable from third place or lower. Ultimately the aspiration of Third Place First is for...

Whether we agree or disagree on the need for such positions, one thing everyone will agree on is the importance of the police to the public, and that November’s elections usher in the single biggest change to policing accountability for nearly a century. Another point...

The first lesson learnt from the ‘Small Labour Groups’ workshop at the Third Place First conference workshop was that, while Ed Miliband may be leader of the Labour party, within local communities it’s often the small group of hard-working councillors (sometime lone...