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"The Tories are laughing as we tear each other to pieces"
29 July 2015
The Labour Leadership race has certainly come alive in the last week. At the beginning there was much complaining about the rather dull and formulaic nature of the contest - the hustings were all the same, the candidates too close...
Continue ReadingNever Again: Lessons from Labour's key seats
28 July 2015
The polls were the source of false hope. Not just national polls but constituency polls, which appeared to give a more fine-grained and accurate picture of what was happening on the ground. In fact, what the national polls showed in England...
Continue ReadingWindow of change: what Labour's next leader must do
27 July 2015
If McDonald’s wanted to sell upmarket steak, they’d need to do more than put porterhouse on the menu. Similarly, persuading votes to trust Labour on spending required more than the last minute addition of a fiscal lock at the front...
Continue ReadingLet Labour flourish
27 July 2015
What is Labour's place in a new political landscape? This is the question the party must seek to answer as it comes to terms with its shocking electoral defeat. Labour’s current challenge is unique – both in terms of its history,...
Continue Reading"To win we're going to need to change as a party"
20 July 2015
The hard truth is that we lost the 2015 election because we lost touch with our people. We let the Tories define the ground on the economy in the long, leader-less summer of 2010 and we never won it back....
Continue Reading“Our party must always aspire to look and sound like the country we seek to represent”
20 July 2015
The Labour party exists to win elections to improve lives and make the world a better place. But if the shock of our crushing election defeat is beginning to fade, the scale of the challenge facing us is only just...
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