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Waveney Articles

The message and the messenger

May 2015 was the fifth general election I fought as a candidate. I spoke to more voters in this campaign than all the others put together. I shook lots of hands in the ‘blitzing’ sessions of 1997, but that involved little more than ‘thanks for your support’ as the big...
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Ukip puts recapturing Labour seats at risk

One of the biggest surprises of my political life was walking into the count for Waveney’s  2013 county council elections. In the midterm of a Tory government I had expected that Labour would win all eight of the Lowestoft wards, all won by the Tories in the disaster...
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How the East was lost … and how to win again

There were two tests for Labour in the East at this year’s local elections:
– Would we win control of more councils?
– Would ‘red shoots’ emerge by winning seats on councils we could not expect to control?

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Our island story

Labour’s early parliamentary selections in the ‘island’ seats are a chance to pioneer a new type of politics

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