Since Labour lost power in 2010, the left has turned away from the key precepts of public service reform as practised by the Blair/Brown governments in England. The twin axioms of the New Labour period – top-down control and the...
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The preoccupation of both Tory strategists and Labour feminists with women voters can’t disguise Labour’s challenge: we’ve got man trouble.
Reversing the historic Tory lead with women was, of course, crucial to New Labour’s political project: a party cannot be a...
Labour’s route back to power lies in coalition with other parties that share our values.
This piece was first published in Spring 2012 edition of the Fabian Review
An alliance between Labour and the Liberal Democrats; who on earth, after their treachery,...
Election night in 2010 was full of surprises. The defeat itself was not one of them; the steady loss of Labour support since the fateful ‘election that never was’ in 2007 became a torrent by 2009 from which it was...
If the polls are to be believed, cutting welfare is very popular.
YouGov reports that fewer than a third of Labour voters and just 3 per cent of Conservatives oppose it. This places the left in a terrible bind, not least because the public...