Labour and Conservative parties trade insults on deficit plans

Alistair Darling today set out a detailed 148-page dossier setting out a £34 billion “credibility gap” in the Conservative party’s spending plans. But a Conservative party protest outside the Labour party’s headquarters set out “17 questions for Mr 17%”, atest

Happy Christmas!

Left Foot Forward will be offline until January 4th but we wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our readers, writers, moles, twitter followers, commenters, and facebook fans a very happy Christmas! If this is your first time ontest

Labour needs a new electoral strategy

I’ve written an article for the latest edition of Fabian Review on how Labour needs to rethink its ‘middle Britain’ electoral strategy in light of the changes over the last 15 years in demography, geography, values, and politics. I arguetest

Politics Summary: Friday, December 18th

The emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit would still lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C, according to a confidential UN analysis obtained by the Guardian. A rise of 3C would meantest