David Cameron's much delayed, much anticipated and over-hyped Bloomberg speech will not resolve the internal Tory divisions on Europe. It is already clear that there has been no long lasting opinion poll boost. Indeed Labour appears to be strengthening its...
Time flies. The terrible defeat of 2010 feels like yesterday, but suddenly Labour’s 2015 manifesto is just two years away. The good news is the party’s policy debates have energy and vigour, but so far there’s a lot more diagnosis...
This collection of essays looks at the big policy questions Labour needs to answer if it is to win power again.
Edited by Sofie Jenkinson.
February 2013
In addressing the Fabians European conference “Why Europe? The Left’s Answer” last weekend, I was asked to reflect on what kind of European economic framework would be best for Europe and Britain.
As I, and many others, have argued from many...
Ed Miliband’s response to David Cameron’s pledge to hold an ‘in-out’ referendum after the next election has been criticised by some on the left for its perceived lack of clarity. What is crystal clear is that, should a referendum be...
I recently had a discussion with a group of politics students about proportional representation and whether it could be one obvious way to restore political engagement and political trust. When one student pointed out that the 1950s saw way higher...
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