Ed Miliband projected to win Labour crown
Left Foot Forward’s latest intelligence on MPs and MEPs does not give David Miliband enough support to win. Ed Miliband is likely to win the leadership crown tomorrow.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
John Healey’s fight for the “squeezed middle”
Next Wednesday, nominations will open for Labour’s shadow cabinet election. With 14 male members of the current shadow cabinet chasing a maximum of 13 places, one of Labour’s big guns can expect to be disappointed. One man hoping for antest
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals – can we do it?
The chair of the APPG for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, Jim Dobbin MP, writes about whether we can meet the Millennium Development Goals.
Our union balloting laws stem from the Tories’ love for all things Hayek
Ruwan Subasinghe, a lawyer at the International Transport Workers’ Federation, on the background to the nation’s trade union laws.
War on anti-social behaviour needs more bobbies on the beat
Sir Denis O’Connor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, has today delivered a blunt assessment of the fight against the “disease” of anti-social behaviour.
An economics lesson for Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP today sets out the Government’s case for its accelerated spending cuts programme. His article owes more to politics than economics.
Labour’s record on child poverty: ambitious, radical and innovative
Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, Gregg McClymont, reviews a new book assessing Labour’s record on eradicating child poverty.
Voting over – but will the race come down to MPs’ second preferences?
With voting now over, it looks like the Labour leadership race will be neck-and-neck – and could come down to Abbott/Balls/Burnham supporters’ 2nd preferences.
How to mend Britain’s broken economy
A new e-book, entitled ‘Britain’s broken economy – and how to mend it’ is published today; here, contributor Jonathan Rutherford describes the background to it.
The contradictions of Vince Cable
Vince Cable received praise from certain quarters today for his speech attacking capitalism – yet his record tells a different story to his rhetoric.