Gordon Brown’s “fight back” speech to conference is generally well regarded by the papers. For The Times it was a speech to “prove that he had not run out of steam” while the Independent says he “rallies wounded party withtest
Reaction to Gordon Brown’s speech in the blogosphere has unsurprisingly split across party lines. Labour List‘s Alex Smith describes it as, “spinkled with rhetoric and substance and with nods to the left and the right, seems to have please everybodytest
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Last week Left Foot Forward showed how UK business investment was in a state of collapse. The US is suffering the same problem and Nobel prize winner Professor Paul Krugman has written about the necessary policy response on his ‘Consciencetest
The papers are full of praise for what The Independent calls Peter Mandelson’s “impassioned speech.” Mandelson said “If I can come back, we can come back” and insisted “we are the true progressives.” The Times remarks that his description oftest
Andrew Marr admitted this afternoon that he had “got it in the neck” from the members of the Coalfield Communities Federation for asking Gordon Brown whether he used “prescription painkillers and pills” on the BBC yesterday. Marr has also beentest
The RSA’s fringe event at Labour party conference focused on how the public is in “denial” about the necessity of public spending cuts. Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos-MORI, set out that voters are “in denial” over spending cuts.
Kerry McCarthy MP, Labour’s new media campaigns spokesperson, spoke to Left Foot Forward about twitter and social media. She said: “Traditional forms of campaigning can quite often be very much about a one way [flow] of information so you puttest
Alistair Darling MP has launched a stinging attack on the Conservative Party using his conference speech to outline the different policy choices made by the Conservative party. Darling said: “Had we made different choices – Tory choices – the UKtest
Labour is to renew its focus on bankers’ bonuses. The Independent report that legislation will be published within weeks to outlaw exorbitant handouts and penalise financial institutions that attempt to pay them. The Guardian say that regulators will have thetest
