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Lab 2012: Miliband’s marginals challenge – who he needs to win and where
New research from Progress examines the 2015 electoral victory strategies available to Ed Miliband, looking at the voters he needs to win and where.
Lab 2012: Predistribution: A primer
A look at the rise of a crucial part of Ed Miliband’s vision for the future of the Labour party – predistribution – and how it may spell the end of New Labour.
Comment: Ulster’s Covenant at 100 – what does the future look like?
Paul Hagan explores the position of the UUP 100 years after the Ulster Covenant. Is there still a place for them in Northern Irish politics?
Lab 2012: Balls must challenge the anti-green chancellor
Ed Balls must do more to challenge the anti-green George Osborne, writes Liz Hutchins, Friends of the Earth’s political co-ordinator.
Labour warn against BIS’s plans to “abolish Equalities Commission by stealth”
This week Chuka Umunna has written to his opposite number Vince Cable to express his and Labour’s opposition to further reform of the Equality Commission.
69 trade unionists face terrorism charges in Turkey
69 members of Turkish trade union KESK will face charges of terrorism next week – chargers which appear to be an attempt to bring the trade union to its knees.
Fiscal union within the UK is the foundation of Scotland’s future growth and fairness
Willie Bain MP explains why Scotland is stronger staying in a fiscal union with the UK, especially during a times of recession, like the one we are in.
Lamont questions future of universal freebies – mature politics or political suicide?
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont this week gave a speech challenging the orthodoxies of Scottish politics, threatening an end to some universal benefits.
GUILTY: After nearly a year, Terry is finally punished for racially abusing Ferdinand
Eleven months after his on-field clash with Anton Ferdinand, and having escaped justice in July, John Terry was finally found guilty of racist abuse today.
Look Left – Toxic Tories, Clegg v Cable, and Romney on the slide
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.