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Labour's Fightback

28 June 2014

In the last 18 months the Labour party has announced a wide range of eyecatching policies. No longer can critics claim that the party has nothing to say. But many of those announcements are ‘doorstep’ pledges designed to win Labour the next election...

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Education and Labour’s social mission: Tristram Hunt Fabian Society Lecture

24 June 2014

Thank you. It is, as ever, a great pleasure to be speaking from the platform of the affiliated Fabian Society. And a tremendous honour too to be invited to give a lecture in the year of your 130th anniversary. “Educate, Agitate, Organise” is...

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Citizen central: What Labour can learn from cooperative councils

17 June 2014

February was the month when senior Labour figures began to set out a new vision for public services. Speeches by Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas sketched their proposals for a radical redistribution of power from central government to individuals, communities...

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Where now for Labour?

13 June 2014

The recent election results were a mixed blessing for the Labour party.  Despite coming first in terms of national vote share in the local elections and seeing the further collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote, the successes clearly did not...

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Election 2014: The numbers

12 June 2014

Labour seats where Labour lost the popular vote in the 2014 local elections Party names in brackets in the 2010 columns indicate the main competitor party in 2010 where this is different from 2014. There were 9 Labour seats where the party...

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Stop taxing periods. Period

11 June 2014

What products and consumables do you consider essential to maintain a decent standard of living? I’m guessing that exotic meats such as horse, ostrich, crocodile and kangaroo wouldn’t make it into your top ten (or even cross your mind). In...

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