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Ed Jacobs

Ed writes on devolved and local government. He works as a political consultant at the only Northern based consultancy, The Public Affairs Company. Ed has previously helped establish and run a student news website therundown.co.uk.

Scotland Decides: the referendum in numbers

Ed Jacobs
18 September, 2014

As voters go to the polls across Scotland, Left Foot Forward has looked at the referendum campaign in numbers.

Scotland decides: trust Alex Salmond or listen to the naysayers?

Ed Jacobs
17 September, 2014

What poses more risks: trusting Alex Salmond or listening to the chorus of those who have warned of the consequences of going it alone?

Support for Welsh independence grows as confusion reigns over Labour’s plans to finance devolution

Ed Jacobs
16 September, 2014

Will Labour keep the Barnett Formula intact as pledged in today’s Daily Record in Scotland, or will it reform system of funding as Carwyn Jones has argued?

Salmond’s NHS argument has been blown apart

Ed Jacobs
16 September, 2014

Alex Salmond’s argument that only independence can save the NHS has been blown apart by new information leaked to the BBC and the Herald newspaper.

Better Together holds on to wafer thin lead

Ed Jacobs
12 September, 2014

Guardian/ICM poll finds support for no campaign on 51 per cent and yes on 49 per cent.

Has Salmond peaked too early?

Ed Jacobs
12 September, 2014

New polling shows the No camp firmly back in the lead.

Better Together’s panicked response plays into Alex Salmond’s hands

Ed Jacobs
10 September, 2014

A combination of a despised ConDem Government in Westminster and a Labour Leader who has failed to connect with the party’s Scottish grassroots points very clearly to today’s visit being a waste of time.

Cometh the hour, cometh Gordon Brown

Ed Jacobs
9 September, 2014

Can Gordon Brown outmaneuver Alex Salmond’s political bluster?

Better Together are in a crisis of their own making

Ed Jacobs
8 September, 2014

In its quest for middle England voters, Labour has for too long taken Scotland for granted.

From Russia to ISIS, NATO needs to act

Ed Jacobs
4 September, 2014

The President’s recent admission that he has no strategy on ISIS spoke volumes to the lacklustre response to current crises

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