Next year’s election is Labour’s to lose. For the forthcoming Clacton byelection confirms both that UKIP will not implode before next May and that the Tories are more interested in ideological warfare than reaching out to undecided voters in marginal...
Sometimes, you have to feel sorry for BBC executives. No, really, you do. There they are, doing their best to ensure a future for their corporation and its anachronistic funding system, the TV licence. And then one of their most...
During party conference Labour took a tough stance on taxation, but the party’s economic competency must be strengthened further by making the case for radical tax reform. Tax is on the agenda of both Labour and the Conservatives, but their...
UKIP divides the Labour party internally. To date, senior Labour figures have been unable to agree whether a UKIP really problem exists and, if it does, how problematic it is likely to prove.
In a new Fabian report, ‘Revolt on the...
Labour's answer to the UKIP challenge must engage on matters of policy, message and organisation alike.
By Marcus Roberts, incorporating research from Rob Ford and Ian Warren
October 2014
The Labour party has always had a historically resilient and core ethnic minority vote – but although the party has often taken that vote for granted, it is increasingly at risk. This issue ties in with a greater one: how can...
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